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Re:The best QBasic game ever? by DanBC on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @03:58AM (#5563285)
> used that tiny dos-box blue editor that comes with QB64 to code the entire game tho :)

And had a screen at an EGA text resolution of 80 x 25 chars with each character being in a box of 9x14 pixels. (With pixels means 'dots on the screen'.)

And saved the result on 5 1⁄4-inch or 3 1⁄2-inch discs.

And fiddled about with FOSSIL drivers and kermit or Xmodem or Ymodem and ProcommPlus to upload the game to a BBS. At 9600 baud.

(I'm not taking anything away from the game! )

Re:The best QBasic game ever? by dhimes on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @08:25AM (#5564013)
At 9600 baud

Lucky bastard.

Re:The best QBasic game ever? by bluedino on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @08:43AM (#5564079)
Running the editor with /h would give you 43 or 50 lines of text. Then use the green on black color scheme and you were a 4th grade hacker.