QBasic Gaming Museum

[jofers]

The internet archive just posted 2400+ old MS-DOS games on-line, powered by a port of DosBox to Javascript using Emscripten. em-dosbox is on github, and while it was a pain to set up, it turns out it's pretty dead simple to zip up dos programs into a website.

So, I tried it with a few QBasic gems. It's not perfect, but it's faster than it has any right to be. So, if you're just coming in, here's the score:
HTML5 Output: QBASIC (1985-1991): 1, FreeBASIC (2005-): 0.

It's playable on my laptop if it's plugged into the wall and I use CTRL+F12 to increase the emulation speed to ~20,000 cycles. (In the case of nibbles, it's CTRL+F11 to slow down)

http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/arrakis.html
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/cookied.html
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/darkwood.html
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/dwoods2.html
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/ghinirun.html
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/gorilla.html
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/grooveb.html
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/hackman3.html
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/kingdoms.html
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/liannedc.html
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/lmind3.html
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/minirpg3.html
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/monospac.html
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/msong.html
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/nibbles.html
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/spinball.html
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/squealer.html
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/sstack.html
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/starwrek.html
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/usstack.html
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/wetspot.html
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/wetspot2.html
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/wormer.html

And of course, there's this. Quotation marks don't seem to work, so if you can write a program without strings, you're all set.
http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/qbasic.html

I'm trying to figure out how to clean these up to put on a wordpres site (hopefully cache that 30MB dosbox file). If anyone wants to help or sacrifice bandwidth that would be most welcome. Besides that, any classics you think should be here?

[anonymous1337]

Ah, Kingdoms.
http://web.archive.org/web/200610191844 ... om/26026-r

[Dr_D]

Interesting.

[jofers]

It looks like a few of the games did make it into the internet archive's DOS collection. Here's Dark Woods 2:
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Dark_Woods_2_2002

And here's.... Bob Saget Killer 2000? Okay, whatever internet preservationists.
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Bob_S ... _2000_1997

That's all I could spot. Let me know if you find any more.

[1000101]

zomg! Bob Saget Killer 2000! That "game" was awesome.