#qbasic
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #qbasic from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-13 03:55 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-13 03:55 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-13 03:55 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~7141 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 14:00
Languages: English (36) · Polish (1) · Spanish (1) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 7.5
Top of the latest posts
i'm making a #QBasic game using mode 13h, 320x200 8bpp. i'm using the line doubling feature of the VGA card to make it 320x100 then manually doubling each pixel horizontally for 160x100 i realized i could use a palette with 3 bits red/green
made a ravine kind of scene in blender and ran it through my 160x100 8bpp qbasic engine. i kinda like it :3 #QBasic #PixelArt #GameDev #RetroDev #RetroComputing
RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/116028540679767640 took me all fucking day because oh my god never interact with the DOS timers system but my qbasic engine can now reliably lock to: - 70fps: full speed - 35fps: double the time for
What “qbasic” means
WikipediaQBasic is an integrated development environment (IDE) and interpreter for a variety of dialects of BASIC which are based on the QuickBASIC compiler and the QuickBASIC Interpreter. Code entered into the IDE is an intermediate representation (IR), and this IR is immediately executed on demand within the IDE.
“QBasic” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#qbasic across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #qbasic straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/qbasic