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