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QBasic and its blue screen recreated
An HN comment about bringing back the QBasic editor many people first coded in.
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QBasic was where many people wrote their first code. The author rebuilt QBasic 1.1 from scratch to run in the browser, blue screen and all: open a .BAS file from 1994 and it just runs, graphics, PLAY music and even the original speed. It was checked against thousands of real programs running in DOSBox. Their hobby now is asking Claude to generate complex QBasic programs and running them, collected in a gallery.
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From a passing comment or social post, so the details are thin.
- Hacker News: QBasic was where a lot of us wrote our first code. I wanted that blue screen back, so I rebuilt QBasHN commenter: vahidcePosted
The comment with the link to try it.