Almost 500 QuickBasic Games

[TerryRitchie]

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.

[TheAce]

Thanks for doing this, Terry, but when I click that link, I get this message...

[TerryRitchie]

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.

[TheAce]

Hey, no need to apologize!  Hope we get it back!  Thanks very much.

[Kernelpanic]

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.

[SMcNeill]

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.

[TerryRitchie]

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.

[SMcNeill]

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!

[TerryRitchie]

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.

[TerryRitchie]

Ok, the original post now contains two ZIP files you can download.