QB64
HaltedPlayableWindowsLinuxOSX
Based on Gorillas
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About
The originals are two classic QBasic sample games bundled with MS-DOS: Gorillas (1990), a turn-based artillery game where two gorillas lob explosive bananas across a city skyline, and Nibbles, a snake-game demo written by Rick Raddatz. QB64 is an open-source, modern BASIC compiler and IDE that preserves compatibility with classic QBasic and QB4.5 code — including sample programs like Gorillas and Nibbles — while compiling to native binaries for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Getting started
After installing QB64, use its built-in IDE to open and edit BASIC source files, then press F5 to compile and run them, or F11 to just compile a binary. Command-line compilation is also supported for building without opening the IDE.