Virtual Pimp

A QBasic/QuickBASIC runner playing a vintage BASIC program.

Virtual Pimp — QBasic Game by Eric Boudreau and Mike Kristopeit

Virtual Pimp is a QBasic text-based strategy game written by Eric "Boutros Boutros" Boudreau and Mike "QPG" Kristopeit. I don't remember who downloaded this, but someone loaded it onto the computers in Programming Class in high school. It was fun to get the source code, change the names to people I knew IRL, and think I was pretty awesome doing it. Playable in-browser via DOSBox inside Doors 98.

Virtual Pimp — QBasic Game by Eric Boudreau and Mike Kristopeit

Virtual Pimp is a QBasic text-based strategy game written by Eric "Boutros Boutros" Boudreau (boudr@execpc.com) and Mike "QPG" Kristopeit (kewpee@wi.net). Their names and handles appear on the game's title screen alongside a color-cycling animation.

I don't remember who downloaded this, but someone loaded it onto the computers in Programming Class in high school. It was fun to get the source code, change the names to people I knew IRL, and think I was pretty awesome doing it.

Virtual Pimp is playable in-browser on Doors 98 via DOSBox (js-dos) running the original QBASIC.EXE from MS-DOS 6.22. Use the numpad with NumLock on to navigate the city.

A QBasic text-based strategy game written by Eric "Boutros Boutros" Boudreau and Mike "QPG" Kristopeit. The program circulated online and was downloaded and installed on the school computer lab machines — that is how FieRcE YeD encountered it. Boudreau and Kristopeit have no known connection to FieRcE YeD or his school. FieRcE YeD did not write this program; he played it on the classroom computers, did not retain a working copy in his personal archives, and sourced it from another site for preservation here. Playable in-browser on Doors 98 via DOSBox (js-dos) running the original QBASIC.EXE from MS-DOS 6.22.