PeatSoft Classic BASIC Archive

GW-BASIC • Classic MS-DOS Programming • Retro Code Preservation

Classic & Retro-Inspired Software

This collection is inspired by the spirit of early BASIC programming — simple ideas, fast feedback, and creative experimentation. Some titles are modern VB.NET projects, built with the same philosophy that powered GW-BASIC games on MS-DOS.


ICOView 0.01 - This VB.NET program is a custom ICO (Windows icon) file parser and renderer. Instead of relying on Windows APIs to load an icon, it manually reads the ICO file format, extracts the bitmap data, interprets the color palette and transparency mask, and draws the icon pixel-by-pixel into a Bitmap displayed in a PictureBox.

The code is written more as an ICO format explorer/debugger than a general-purpose icon loader.

It supports:

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WAVView 0.01 - is a simple WAV file inspector and player. It allows the user to select a WAV file, manually parses parts of the WAV header, validates some audio parameters, displays file information, and then plays the audio using both a custom PCM playback routine and a Windows Media Player control.

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MSDetect 0.01 - This VB.NET code is essentially a utility/demo module for system diagnostics and file/system information gathering.

It combines many small helper functions that wrap .NET APIs (and a bit of Windows API + WMI) to inspect files, drives, OS info, environment variables, registry data, and INI files.

It's a: Windows system inspection / diagnostic utility library

It can be used for:

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The 15 most famous card games - VB.NET code of 15 card games (templates for further development, contain errors, made with AI)

List of the games:

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Optical Illusions - VB.NET code of Optical Illusions (some good, others less good, contain errors, made with AI)

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Nice Game Ideas - VB.NET code of Language, Count and Classic Games (templates for further development, contain errors, made with AI)

List of the games:

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