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Books

These are some well regarded books specifically about QBasic 1.1.

Qbasic By Example, Special Edition
by Greg M. Perry, Que Publishing

Qbasic Programming for Dummies
by Hergert, Douglas

Q Basic
by Steven L. Mandell; Susan K. Baumann

Running Ms-Dos Qbasic
by Michael Halvorson

Using Quickbasic/Includes Version 4
by Don Inman, Bob Albrecht

Online Resources

Pete's QBasic Site

  • Lots of information about many topics, including magazines, but you have to sift through things that aren't applicable to QBasic 1.1.

Gary Beene’s Information Center

  • Explains the differences between QBasic and the original QuickBasic.
  • Has tutorials about lesser discussed, yet important topics.

QBASIC Programming for Kids

  • Written by Ted Felix.
  • Excellent guide to various topics, especially his sprite tutorial.

Load Sprite From File

  • Written by Balau.
  • Shows how to load sprite data from a file, as well as the general info one needs to reach that point.

QBasic.net

  • Useful downloads and information about running QBasic on modern hardware.
  • Provides full copies of QBasic 1.1, Quick Basic 4.5 and Quick Basic 7.

Progamming in QBasic

  • Technoloy University
  • Some complex math and other useful examples.

WikiBooks

  • Fairly thorough guide of the standard functionality.
  • Note: It randomly throws in comments like, "this only works in QB64!!!", so QBasic 1.1 users have to pay close attention when reading.