After reading Toady's post about Dragslay - an old BASIC game he made quite a while ago, it reminded me of a few games I made myself many years ago in QBASIC. I put them on a Geocities hosted site a long time ago and forgot about them, but I just found the link (can't believe it's still hosted!)
I called them 'Flysoft Games' because my last name is 'Flynn'. It was a lot of fun making them, but I never got very many people to play them. I haven't done any stand-alone apps since college (CS degree) and I am now a PHP web programmer for a local broadband company.
Anyway, here they are:
http://geocities.com/flysoftgames/
Dragon Bane is the only one that comes with the qbasic source code (ran out of memory before I could turn it into an executable) so you'll just have to run it in the compiler. The others are stand-alone.
(I know the site sucks, I've come a long way since then in web design!)
EDIT:
K, here they are hosted on a MediaFire:
The Arrival
Catacomb
Vertical Horizon
Dragon Bane
Descriptions (in order of creation)
The Arrival:
This was my first game I ever made. You just shoot the never-ending alien horde and rack up points. It's just a precursor to Dragon Bane though.
Dragon Bane
Took me ages to write (I did all my graphics pixel by pixel in BASIC). I guess I was a little too ambitious since it turned out to be pretty buggy/difficult in the end. If you can get past the bugs, it IS beatable (though no-one has done it before). There are 20 "screens" you have to get through before a fight with a sweet looking dragon at the end.
Vertical Horizon:
I wanted to do something different, so I wrote up this little mountain-scaling game. You basically climb a bunch of sheer cliffs while not getting too far ahead of your rope hook. If you fall, well...your Yeti meat. You can also 'win' by getting to the top.
Catacomb:
My crack at a Roguelike. Oddly I wrote this game before playing or hearing of a roguelike before. I used a cool little tile system I found online. The combat is buggy, but this game also has a real goal in mind. Nobody has ever found the ending though (besides me!).
By the way, I just tried all of the games on Vista and had no luck getting them to run - so I hope you are using XP. :p
[ March 30, 2008: Message edited by: lumin ]