A fun open-source project in QBasic – DosToGo, a tiny and configurable Program Launcher for MsDos

QBasic was the first programming language I ever laid hands on. I saw it in action for the first time on a Commodore 64, but soon I was able to find it on my very first Personal Computer, an unforgettable Pentium 100 MHz with Windows 9x.

I was about 9/10 years old at the time. As a little kid, I enjoyed developing silly mini-games in QBasic, until I discovered Visual Basic 4.0, which also became a protagonist of sleepless nights. Eventually, the advent of Web Programming and the years of university invaded my life and everything changed.

I made software development my profession, always in the enterprise field. After so many years, looking at the blue QBasic editor again and running a small program on native Dos have been an exciting blast from the past!

I developed this small utility because, in my retro-adventures, I was specifically looking for a small and easily configurable launcher, so the choice immediately fell to building it myself.

So here’s DosToGo, a tiny and configurable DOS program launcher developed with QBasic that works with MsDos 6.22 or higher.

If you want to try it out, please find below a couple of useful links