Here are some programs for you to download. If you would like to submit a program to Program Source, send it to [email protected]. Make sure to send in the source and if possible, an executable (.exe). Most of the programs are in QBasic/QuickBasic.
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Lights Out Solver |
| File: | lights.bas, lights.zip (contains the .exe and the .bas) |
| Author: | Michael Gagnon |
| Language: | QBasic/QuickBasic |
| Screen shot: | 1 |
| Description: | This program will solve every possible puzzle for the Lights Out game by Tiger Electronics even though they might be impossible to solve if you make your own puzzle. Well they didn't do their research because every possible puzzle is solvable, as demonstrated in this program. |
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Screen file |
| File: | scrnfile.bas |
| Author: | Michael Gagnon |
| Language: | QBasic/QuickBasic |
| Screen shot: | none |
| Description: | The smallest program up here. It just shows how one can create different effects by opening the monitor as a file and using WRITE as opposed to using PRINT. |
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Ameoba |
| File: | ameoba.bas, ameoba.zip (contains the .exe and the .bas) |
| Author: | Michael Gagnon |
| Language: | QBasic/QuickBasic |
| Screen shot: | none |
| Description: | Probability dictates whether or not an ameoba will survive. This is not graphically oriented but it looks cool and has a little lesson of probability built in. |
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Weird |
| File: | weird.bas |
| Author: | Michael Gagnon |
| Language: | QBasic/QuickBasic |
| Screen shot: | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
| Description: | This program makes cool looking computer art that's random and also based on hard coded constants. |
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Simplify |
| File: | simplify.bas |
| Author: | Michael Gagnon |
| Language: | QBasic/QuickBasic |
| Screen shot: | none |
| Description: | This program simplifies fractions using an interesting method. |
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Dot Erase |
| File: | doterase.bas |
| Author: | Michael Gagnon |
| Language: | QBasic/QuickBasic |
| Screen shot: | 1, 2 |
| Description: | Sometimes when you try to make many circles of different colors, one inside the other, as close as possible, you will notice that the color of the back ground remains in little dots between the circles. This takes care of that. |
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Bases |
| File: | bases.bas |
| Author: | Michael Gagnon |
| Language: | QBasic/QuickBasic |
| Screen shot: | none |
| Description: | This program inputs an ordianry integer and converts it to octal and hexadecimal. |
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Bounce |
| File: | bounce.bas |
| Author: | Michael Gagnon |
| Language: | QBasic/QuickBasic |
| Screen shot: | none |
| Description: | This is simply a program that has pixels bouncing all over the screen. Once you understand it, you can modify it to create many different effects. |
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Fake DOS |
| File: | fakdos.bas |
| Author: | Michael Gagnon |
| Language: | QBasic/QuickBasic |
| Screen shot: | none |
| Description: | A fake DOS program that is good for a practical joke. It just keeps on saying "Bad command or file name" until the computer pretends to self destruct. This used to have a better effect when people actually used MS-DOS and knew what it was. |
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