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Almost 500 QuickBasic Games - TerryRitchie - 01-07-2024
I was going through some of my old hard drives and came across a folder with almost 500 QuickBasic games and screenshots to go with them.
I must have scraped a web site at some point in the past. Not all but many of the games also include source code. I noticed some of them use the DirectQB and SVGAQB libraries that were popular at the time so they will be a bit challenging to get running in QB64.
I zipped everything up into two files that can be downloaded below.
NOTE: I originally offered this as one big file that did not work, that's what replies below are referring to.
RE: Almost 500 QuickBasic Games - TheAce - 01-07-2024
Thanks for doing this, Terry, but when I click that link, I get this message...
![[Image: Capture.jpg]](https://i.ibb.co/9YnFLTh/Capture.jpg)
RE: Almost 500 QuickBasic Games - TerryRitchie - 01-07-2024
(01-07-2024, 07:17 PM)TheAce Wrote: Thanks for doing this, Terry, but when I click that link, I get this message...Ah, good old Google algorithms at play. It's been flagged for abuse for what ever reason. I requested a review of the file but I have no idea how long that will take. In the meantime this post should be deleted until I can get to the bottom of it.
Sorry for the post not working.
RE: Almost 500 QuickBasic Games - TheAce - 01-07-2024
Hey, no need to apologize! Hope we get it back! Thanks very much.
RE: Almost 500 QuickBasic Games - Kernelpanic - 01-07-2024
I just tried out your two games Space Invaders and Pacman. Very well made games, runs well. These old games are somehow timeless, they don't get old.
When I have some inner peace and play, I usually play Age of Empires I & II, which also run on Win 10. I always create my maps myself, as complicated as possible.
RE: Almost 500 QuickBasic Games - SMcNeill - 01-07-2024
Is it a zip file? Most archives can be uploaded here with about 200MB or so for a file size limit. Might take a bit to up/down, depending on speeds, but unless it times out on you, it should be able to hold BAS files as they compress down amazingly well being basically just text.
RE: Almost 500 QuickBasic Games - TerryRitchie - 01-07-2024
(01-07-2024, 09:17 PM)SMcNeill Wrote: Is it a zip file? Most archives can be uploaded here with about 200MB or so for a file size limit. Might take a bit to up/down, depending on speeds, but unless it times out on you, it should be able to hold BAS files as they compress down amazingly well being basically just text.
Yep, it's a 213MB zip file, just above the limit. If you can raise the limit a bit I'll upload it here.
RE: Almost 500 QuickBasic Games - SMcNeill - 01-07-2024
200 is all they let us go up to. Any chance you can break it into 2 files for us? Or maybe tweak the compression to get just a few percent smaller? That's sooo close to the limit -- and that's the 2nd file that's been that close today!
RE: Almost 500 QuickBasic Games - TerryRitchie - 01-07-2024
(01-07-2024, 09:30 PM)SMcNeill Wrote: 200 is all they let us go up to. Any chance you can break it into 2 files for us? Or maybe tweak the compression to get just a few percent smaller? That's sooo close to the limit -- and that's the 2nd file that's been that close today!
I was just thinking the same thing. I'll upload two files here in a moment.
RE: Almost 500 QuickBasic Games - TerryRitchie - 01-07-2024
Ok, the original post now contains two ZIP files you can download.