QB45 paid my mortgage for many years. I still wrote executables in it that were called from the replacement VB when Windows 95 came along. Happy days. Paid to play with computers!
I really wanted to put some fancier physics on it, but realising I was taking quite a while just to sort the graphics out (and how hefty the CPU requirements were getting!) made me defer it so I could keep this video to about 20 minutes without having to skip over too much of the detail about how things work.
Please do more of these :) I have recently started to do something similar (reviving and improving old QBasic programs and program ideas) with the help of ChatGPT ;) which works surprisingly well. It saves you all the tedious "I know how but it's a lot to type in" type of work. It makes mistakes though, but as an experienced QBasic programmer they should be easy to fix. One last hint, don't try to argue with it when it gets something wrong. It's futile. I had some lengthy argument with it about the third argument of the LOCATE statement. It just didn't get it. (Well, it was kinda enjoyable also, but unproductive.)
Police Squad's are brilliant! They really leant into the joke aspect of it with criminals escaping, coffee overflowing, and all sorts. (Well. 6 sorts. It wasn't a long series.)
@@TimberwolfK My absolute favourite scene in Police Squad was when they are stripping down a car to try and find the evidence, but end up absolutely smashing it to bits with sledge hammers singing "Gonna Mississippi, gonna see Delilah...". It was just the perfect addition to the sequence of the scene. Topped by them finding the evidence in the glove compartment all along, and then reassembling the utterly destroyed car into perfect condition so as not to raise suspicion with the crook owner. An absolute classic show.
Beautiful. Weirdly I see the master system collection kinda the same as this, it’s a present to 14 year old me. If I could do it, he’d want me to do it. Sadly I think all my own code for pre-1998 has been lost to time.
I wish I'd been better at keeping stuff. Most of what I have from the era is because it got transferred between computers, whether that was taking it to school, to my dad's or to share with a PC-owning friend, and ended up on a floppy disk before getting transferred to CD when the disks were thrown out. One thing I do have which I should cover at some point is a small collection of Duke3D levels from when I got really into making stuff in the Build editor. (Adds to the big spreadsheet of Stuff To Do...)
BTW, I can imagine your schoolmates going like "why is it called DUAL RACER when there is only one car" and you saying "no, it's OVAL RACER" but they kept insisting it's DUAL RACER just to mess with you... Something like that happened back then?
QB45 paid my mortgage for many years. I still wrote executables in it that were called from the replacement VB when Windows 95 came along. Happy days. Paid to play with computers!
That was lovely. That rotating car was fantastic, with the tyres and that! And such lovely special effects too!
I really wanted to put some fancier physics on it, but realising I was taking quite a while just to sort the graphics out (and how hefty the CPU requirements were getting!) made me defer it so I could keep this video to about 20 minutes without having to skip over too much of the detail about how things work.
I love that OVAL RACER is a square. :D
Making QBasic Fun again! Keep it up!
Please do more of these :)
I have recently started to do something similar (reviving and improving old QBasic programs and program ideas) with the help of ChatGPT ;) which works surprisingly well. It saves you all the tedious "I know how but it's a lot to type in" type of work. It makes mistakes though, but as an experienced QBasic programmer they should be easy to fix.
One last hint, don't try to argue with it when it gets something wrong. It's futile. I had some lengthy argument with it about the third argument of the LOCATE statement. It just didn't get it. (Well, it was kinda enjoyable also, but unproductive.)
fascinating video!
I'm a bit tired of retro programmer stuff, but yer alright.
This puts you into a group of a handful of people I bother watching.
Amazing video 😍 I wish I had been able to code this well lol (even now)
Police Squad! also had the best end freeze frames, must be a general 70's/80's cop show rule.
Police Squad's are brilliant! They really leant into the joke aspect of it with criminals escaping, coffee overflowing, and all sorts. (Well. 6 sorts. It wasn't a long series.)
@@TimberwolfK My absolute favourite scene in Police Squad was when they are stripping down a car to try and find the evidence, but end up absolutely smashing it to bits with sledge hammers singing "Gonna Mississippi, gonna see Delilah...". It was just the perfect addition to the sequence of the scene. Topped by them finding the evidence in the glove compartment all along, and then reassembling the utterly destroyed car into perfect condition so as not to raise suspicion with the crook owner. An absolute classic show.
in tune of ridge racer
OVAAAL RAAACEERR!
Beautiful. Weirdly I see the master system collection kinda the same as this, it’s a present to 14 year old me. If I could do it, he’d want me to do it. Sadly I think all my own code for pre-1998 has been lost to time.
I wish I'd been better at keeping stuff. Most of what I have from the era is because it got transferred between computers, whether that was taking it to school, to my dad's or to share with a PC-owning friend, and ended up on a floppy disk before getting transferred to CD when the disks were thrown out.
One thing I do have which I should cover at some point is a small collection of Duke3D levels from when I got really into making stuff in the Build editor. (Adds to the big spreadsheet of Stuff To Do...)
Happy New Year sir! Curious what this year will bring from you. I think a lot of nostalgia and I hope a Lets Play
Thanks! Happy New Year to you as well. There are some plans in the works... more I am not at liberty to reveal yet ;)
BTW, I can imagine your schoolmates going like "why is it called DUAL RACER when there is only one car" and you saying "no, it's OVAL RACER" but they kept insisting it's DUAL RACER just to mess with you... Something like that happened back then?
change this array DIM statement, alter the LINE statements to compact that...
AND BOOM : basic DOOM ;)