BAS.ZIP Click this button to download (627 Kb). This file contains most of the BASIC programs mentioned on this web site but not included below. If you like any of them, please let me know.

Zip.zip Zipping and Unzipping utilities. 

P-Basic.com   A BasicA interpreter. Use it like GWBasic to run a program.

CounterPoint  Unzip and copy to a floppy to create an installation disk.

Shut Down Utility for Windows 95/98/ME (but not 2000 or XP)

Q87Cr a Maths Co-Processor (FPU) Emulator.

Money.zip  by Peter Illing. Includes Mortgage.bas, Pension4.bas & Sseries2.bas. 

Digdump.zip by John Bell. Math quiz with dumper truck and falling balls.

Hard Drive Technical Specs ver 3.0 Utility for interrogating an unknown PC with jumper and BIOS setting for Hard Drives up to about 1 Gig.

MatrixJ My son and I saw "The Matrix" on TV last week. A few days later as we were making our way to stay with friends, we dropped in on Martin's primary school friend, Simon (they are now 14) for a couple of hours . The boys of course disappeared to play on an old 486 PC. Martin wrote this little program during our two hour stay there. If you download it you will find the original BASIC version and a compiled version using QBasic 4.5. It will run in DOS but you will need to reboot to stop it because it loops. Under BASIC the usual Ctrl-Break will stop it and under Windows 95 or above Ctrl-Alt-Del and "End Task" will get you out. Would make a good screen saver but my attempts so far have failed. If anyone out there wishes to have a go and succeeds, please send me a copy.

MY2K11.ZIP. A Year Substitution program called "My Self's Y2K fix 1.1. It allows you to specify the year to anything you like. I unzipped it and copied it into a directory called"Y2KFIX". Then I put the line "C:\Y2KFIX\Y2K.exe 2004" into the AUTOEXEC.BAT near the top. Of course next year I will have to alter it to "C:\Y2KFIX\Y2K.exe 2005".

If you wish to "improve" or add to any of the BASIC programs you are free to do so provided that credit is given to the author. I would also be interested in receiving a copy.

If you have also written your own BASIC programs and are willing to share your files, please send them as attachments.