pacman000 Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 (edited) I wastrying to fing an RPG engine I remember reading about, when I stumbled upon this: https://sites.google.com/view/astrangerthingsretrogame/homeIt's a hobbyist BASIC game based on Stranger Things. Created in QBasic; can be compiled for newer PC's with QB64. Edited July 14, 2018 by pacman000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Would be neat to see what could be used from the code to port it to the 7800. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger03 Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 (flatline) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Well, some of the earliest RPGs were written partially or totally in BASIC (such as the first Ultima)... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamemoose Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Huh...people still using BASIC. Dang cool! I remember there were programming books back in the day that had the story, maps and code in the book. I had a Color Computer and my BASIC knowledge wasn't all that hot to port the code. Rainbow Magazine had a series that went through the steps of creating an RPG. It really went into the minutae, like how long torches burn for along with food consumption. General adventuring maintenance from 1st edition AD&D and the sort. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 i'm pretty impressed QBasic was used for that- sure a far cry from the 'Gorilla' game that was packed with it that's a neat video! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 Til about 10 years ago there was still a Qbasic community which produced some impressive looking stuff: http://www.petesqbsite.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 i'm pretty impressed QBasic was used for that- sure a far cry from the 'Gorilla' game that was packed with it that's a neat video! Don't be hatin' on gorrilla.bas . That game was really fun to play when it was the only game like software on some school computers back when. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Don't be hatin' on gorrilla.bas . That game was really fun to play when it was the only game like software on some school computers back when. hehehehe, i'm not hatin' 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 I remember there were programming books back in the day that had the story, maps and code in the book. I had a Color Computer and my BASIC knowledge wasn't all that hot to port the code. Same here. I remember trying to develop a hybrid RPG-text adventure game on the Coco, with significant chunks of code (and design elements) taken from other sources. Unfortunately, it became just too large and unwieldy to continue adding to. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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