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That's a wrap for #SCaLE22x! It was great to see so many familiar faces and have so many great conversations about #Fedora, #Kubernetes, #DevOps, #Nextcloud, #podman, #QBASIC, and other #Linux adventures!
See you all again next year if not sooner!
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My 8 year old son has fallen in love with this old laptop that honestly isn’t useful for that much as the speed and wifi is so slow.
But he says he wants to learn how to code on it.
@codemonkeymike yes, I would recommend learning Racket. The Racket language is relatively lightweight compared to modern app development frameworks such as VSCode so runs nice and fast on older hardware, and it is designed specifically for teaching coding. There are some nice books aimed at kids for teaching Racket as well:
It is about as easy as learning BASIC was when I was a kid.
racket-lang.orgRacket
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@codemonkeymike @rl_dane I have a copr repo for qb64! But I've also successfully ran actual #QBasic from a floppy drive in #Lutris, which I'm near certain uses DOSBox under the hood, but the important detail about that is that I didn't have to figure that out for myself.
#genuary20 - Generative Architecture. All I kept thinking of was the retro QBasic Gorillas game, where gorillas stand atop a generative city skyline and throw bananas at each other. I coded up a skyline generator to produce the classic look, then thought about modernizing it with a nicer color palette (see also #genuary16 generative palette) and some gradients. And... well that's as far as I got. #qbasic #gorillas #genuary #genuary2025
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@nixCraft when I was around 12 years and got my first own PC, a #8086 #Amstrad, my cousin wrote together with me this first little program, after I asked him: "Andreas... was ist eigentlich dieses #QBASIC?" ("Andreas... what is this 'QBASIC'?")
It really made an impression on me and I thank him from the bottom of my heart! 
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Fun fact: The song is coded in #QBasic and is much longer than in the clip!
GitHubqbsh/qbsh.bas at main · vwbusguy/qbshQuick Basic Shell. Contribute to vwbusguy/qbsh development by creating an account on GitHub.
Road to Countryside - Quest is done!
https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2024/12/road-to-countryside-quest-is-done.html
Different Basic – try different Basic
https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2024/12/different-basic-try-different-basic.html
In #QBASIC on copy.sh's x86 emulator,
OPEN "com1:9600,N,8,1,asc,cd0,cs0,ds0,op0,tb1024" FOR INPUT AS #1
LINE INPUT #1, x$
PRINT x$
CLOSE #1
reads a line from com1. So I can write a base64 decoder, that reads files from com1, and load files in that way. Maybe there's a way to do it in raw binary.
I still like Basic.
Road to countryside – let`s go to the countryside! First quest!
https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2024/12/road-to-countryside-lets-go-to.html
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Lighting a candle in the way #ThomasKurtz would appreciate, in a #QBASIC emulator courtesy of @internetarchive https://archive.org/details/msdos_qbasic_megapack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uRb6RJcigA/
El Vaultage
Música inicial escrita y programada en QuickBASIC para 1-bit PC Speaker, luego mezclada con otras yerbas.
El archivo .BAS editable está en: https://demozoo.org/productions/358860
Motivado por el proyecto de Rocola / Jukebox de ANSI-Music que funciona en The Vault BBS, el video contiene imágenes de ArteTexto hechos por @lotusrubi y @epimundo (jukebox) y @meatlotion (portada del BBS)
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Música monofónica escrita en QuickBASIC que tomó forma de Demo en .exe para DOS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7xh9lc1mnU
La versión ANSI music la pueden encontrar en la Rocola que existe en The Vault BBS.
https://epimundoblog.blogspot.com/p/tutorial-syncterm.html
Gracias a la ingeniería de Don Epi y Lotus Rubí por permitir esta polinización cruzada de mundos.
Participó en la @flashparty logrando el 1er puesto en las votaciones de la categoría Oldschool Demo.
Music written in QuickBASIC, then turned into a full .exe demo. Uses the built-in PC speaker.
Released in @flashparty , got running in 1st place on the votings for Oldschool Demo. Thanks everyone for the support and cheers :D
A programming lessons at the school with the mole!
Pixel art for today based on videogame Illusions of Gaia for game console Super Nintendo. This is a role playing game about adventures. 16 bit age of adventures. It is so nice to turn on cartridge and go to some distant places far far away, where it will to happen something interesting!
@rainbowcemetery 's Anzu Castle Gracula
Cool game I stumbled on today! Haven't gotten very far yet (it's hard!), but I love the Castlevania 2ish backgrounds, the great spritework, and the catchy soundtrack! Interested to take a look at the QBASIC source code, too!
just in time for spooptober, my lil qbasic vania-inspired whip-em-up has made its way to steam :o https://store.steampowered.com/app/3125600/Anzu_Castle_Gracula/ #dos #qbasic #gamedev
Cabin Pilot – world tour in space for a pilot
https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2024/09/cabin-pilot-world-tour-in-space-for.html
#qbasic #bbcbasic #bbcbasicforsdl2.0 #retroprogramming #80svideogames #spitfire #starwars #devlog #gamedev #8bitcomputers #retrogame #space #spaceshooter #spaceavenger #lasers #differentplanets #worldtour #pilot #spacebattle #planetjungle #desert #oceanplanet #forest #arcade #future #scifi #sciencefiction #galaxy #flyzone #topgun
