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Programs

Here are some shitty programs I've made, none of them look nice, and most aren't finished. I only put up the ones that I think are polished enough for the general public up here, so imagine how terrible the ones I don't put up are. They are in basic chronological order of when they where made, so the ones towards the bottom are going to be less terrible. Both of the BASICs where coded in all caps, you'll probably need to use caps to use them. Also I've lost the source, so consider yourself lucky.
QBASIC Visual Basic C++ Batch Perl

QBASIC

These programs are written in QBasic 4.5 they are all black background with white text, and crappy. They are also all ziped for some reason so if you don't have winzip go to www.winzip.com and download it.

Do you want to make programs as great as these? Well now you can.
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Archer - You're an archer with a bow and arrow, try to hit the target.
Bomber - You're a plane or ship or something, shoot the other thing.
Ozzy - This serves no purpose whatsoever but it filled with so many crazy secrets.
Pong - My shitastic version of Pong.
Reflexes - Test your reflexes.

Visual Basic

These programs are written in Visual Basic 6.0 and are slightly less crappy than the previous ones. They need the Visual Basic 6.0 runtime files so if you try to use them and they don't work you probably need to download them from here.
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CPU Test v2.0!!! - Here it is, after years of fine tunning I've finally finished development on CPU Test v2.0. It has some new features, it's quickly becoming the industry wide standard benchmark.
Line - Get ready to be dazzled, this program utilizes the latest in line drawing technology to make a line, that moves.
Blank - This hides in the background and pops up a nice blank screen, annoying.
Calender - A calender.
Countdown - This is like a timer I use it to remind me to get my wash.
CPU test - This tests your CPU.
Mediaplayer - The only real benefit is if you click the background it clears the movie out. I just like how simple and basic it is instead of starting Windows Media Player or something.
Pong - My Visual Basic version of Pong.
Reflexes - Test your reflexes, using VB.
Slide - Suppose to be a slide show but I don't think I ever finished it, I know it works a little.
Stopwatch - Pointless stopwatch.
Timer - Shows how much time is left until a certain time, I used it when I use to work to see how much time I had left until work.
Web - My very limited very basic very beta web browser.

C++

I learned C++ about a week before I had to leave, so I'm not really that good.
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Pirate - My first real game in C++, pretty good, realest game I've ever made. Pretty sure it's the first program I've ever made that doesn't use all caps. About the game itself, you are a trader from the 1800's or so, buy stuff from one port sell it at another, pretty much a rip off of a game called taipan 3000, search Google, may be able to find it. Source

Mutations - This thing basically is supposed to kind of show evolution. You start with just one mutation, then that spawns new ones, sometimes the mutations are better sometime they are worst. The poor ones die out pretty much right away, but the good ones slowly take the food away from the earlier ones. Kind of neat to watch for 30 seconds I guess. Source

Combo - This program will tell you the 64 possible combinations for a Masterlock if you give it the last number. The last number can be found by pulling on the lock and finding the 12 spots it gets stuck. Source

Random - Part of my endless quest to find a perfect RNG, just generates random 1's and 0's and gives you the time it takes to get to certain streaks. Source

Binary - Another part of my endless quest to find a perfect RNG, just generates random 1's and 0's and outputs them to a binary file, so that you can then run something like the Diehard battery of tests on them. Source

Bets - The second program I've made to test progressive betting patterns. I've pretty much proved to myself that they don't work, but that won't stop me from wasting more of my life trying to come up with something that does. Source

Pirate2 - The sequel to the award winning pirate. Arguably the culmination of the human race's achievements. This is still a beta version, although it's hands down better than the original version. Source

Evolution - My terrible attempt at simulating evolution, sort of a follow up to mutations. Source

Monty Hall - This simulates the monty hall problem. In which you have 3 doors, 1 with a prize. You pick a door, and one of the other doors, without a prize, are opened. Then you can either switch your door or not. Which is better? Source

Batch

I use batch from time to time to make nifty little tools, it's pretty powerful what you can do with batch (it's basically just automated DOS prompt), and I think people underestimate it.
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Unhide - This will aid you in making Microsoft's Really Hidden Files unhidden.

Copy - Simple batch to copy newer files from one folder to another, useful for backups.

Perl

Just learned Perl, I'll probably be using it along side C++ depending if what I make is primarily number based or text.
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Numbers - My first Perl program, pretty worthless, outputs any number you enter in text form, up to 333 or so digits.

Combo - Pretty much the same as the above C++ version. However, this one asks for a second number, and lists the combos starting there. A few other small things like the way it orders them, and using blanks instead of XX-XX-XX. Also better code, with comments.

Triangle - You enter the diagonal of a right triangle (or rectangle) and the ratio of the two other sides, and it will tell you the size of the sides. I made it so that I could enter screen sizes and the ratio and find out how wide and tall they will be, so I could compare screens of different ratios.



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