Creepy Computer Games & BASIC Computer Games

[SMcNeill]

[SMcNeill]

Heck, while I'm at it, have this one too!

   

This one is a PDF, so it's all together.  Download is below:

[Kernelpanic]

The books are great! But the speed of the download. . . Creepy Computer 22 minutes left at 70MB. The possible download speed for me is 16 MB per second, and that is today slow.
Is this due to the provider of the QB64 site?

[SMcNeill]

The books are great! But the speed of the download. . . Creepy Computer 22 minutes left at 70MB. The possible download speed for me is 16 MB per second, and that is today slow.
Is this due to the provider of the QB64 site?

These are up on the server here, where they'll remain forever more.  If I were to host them personally, over time I'd probably clean out my dropbox or archive them to a different drive or some such to save that limited upload space.  I'd rather make these available from now on -- even if it means that you click on a download and let it run overnight as our host server slowly passes it out to everyone -- than have it end up becoming a broken link and unavailable at some point down the road.  ,

[TerryRitchie]

I just downloaded it and it took 12 seconds.

[mnrvovrfc]

Thank you for providing these old books. It gives me a bit more to do trying to get them to work on QB64. Trying to put bells and whistles on them too.

[grymmjack]

@SMcNeill awesome. I have some other Usborne BASIC books if you would like them too. Some are not even really about BASIC but even just 8 bit computers. LMK

Did you guys already compile/test to get working in QB64 for the examples in the book?

[SMcNeill]

@SMcNeill awesome. I have some other Usborne BASIC books if you would like them too. Some are not even really about BASIC but even just 8 bit computers. LMK

Did you guys already compile/test to get working in QB64 for the examples in the book?

I just share them.  I haven't tried to type any of them to compile -- I'm too lazy and my eyes are too bad for that anymore! 

Feel free to share whichever books you'd like.  I'm certain there's several folks who would be interested in looking at them, and/or adding them to their own collections as well. 

[JRace]

For anyone interested, the Internet Archive has a lot of Basic books available in their Folkscanomy section.

https://archive.org/details/folkscanomy_...asic+games

A large percentage are specialized for one particular computer or other, but many other titles are more generic.

(I've been down the Internet Archive rabbit hole many times and my hard drive is creaking under the weight of all the books I've downloaded.  I try to remind myself that I am NOT an archivist, but that doesn't always work.)

[mnrvovrfc]

For anyone interested, the Internet Archive has a lot of Basic books available in their Folkscanomy section.

https://archive.org/details/folkscanomy_...asic+games

A large percentage are specialized for one particular computer or other, but many other titles are more generic.

Agreed. Too bad the most interesting books were those about the too-weird Timex Sinclair or ZX Spectrum. :/

I'm resentful that any book about Visual Basic, even about the outdated first releases, has to be "rented". Why not just let go, before the language began changing about Visual Studio 2005. I guess not. Some of those books probably have never been touched in 20 years, if it's just GUI programming that doesn't amount to a whole lot.