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peter swinkels Fri Nov 28 2025 at 5:25 am
Are there any active retro programmers out there?

The most recent thing I have seen is a vb4 Sudoku game for Windows 3.11 at VOGONS.

The https://qbasic-forum.qbasic.net/ forum appears to be practically dead.

Even for me it's just a hobby I only do in my limited spare time but when I do have the time it's a shame I seem to be one of the few who still truly gives a damn about BASIC's for DOS.

And no, if I am doing retro-programming for a hobby I am not using FreeBASIC or FreeDOS. Using the original IDE (mostly) is part of the fun.

Whatever.

Are there any active retro programmers out there? - peter swinkels (Fri Nov 28 2025 at 5:25 am)

"Retro programming" is a broad category - Plasma (Sat Feb 21 2026 at 9:19 am)
Basic & DOS? - EkBass (Sat Jan 10 2026 at 5:44 pm)
- I don't just want to code "old style"-> - Peter Swinkels (Mon Feb 9 2026 at 3:31 am)
  - Retro coding on retro platforms - Optimus (Tue Feb 10 2026 at 7:17 am)
I miss the times - Optimus (Mon Dec 8 2025 at 3:25 pm)
- Communities - EkBass (Sat Jan 10 2026 at 5:51 pm)
- Okay. So you don't use any BASIC for DOS anymore? * - Peter Swinkels (Thu Dec 11 2025 at 3:36 am)
  - Only nostalgic - Optimus (Thu Dec 11 2025 at 8:03 am)
    - Interesting. - Peter Swinkels (Sat Dec 13 2025 at 6:04 am)
      - source - Optimus (Sun Dec 14 2025 at 9:58 am)
        Vbdos's ide can load itself into expanded memory. * - Peter Swinkels (Sun Dec 14 2025 at 12:02 pm)
      - I took another look at those executables. - Peter Swinkels (Sat Dec 13 2025 at 7:22 am)

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