• Tabby: The purring desktop cat with a mouse on its lap.

  This is a little hack I got onto a family member's computer on his birthday. Enjoy.

• IMG1: A drawing program I wrote for a science fair from when I was 12 years old

  This program allows you to draw lines, circles, squares, and text and save your art as Microsoft QuickBasic computer code. It also loads files.

  Also included is a Windows port created using FreeBasic and sound code from yetifoot on the FreeBasic forum. The program is about 2000 lines long.

• MATHEZ: A math quiz program I wrote for a science fair when I was 11 years old.

  The original program was written in Microsoft QuickBasic 4.5.

• BLANK.BAS: A confusing ASCII art-based computer game

  I wrote this when I was about 12 years old using some truely terrible coding practices. Virtually the only comments in the code are the instructions at the top which I wrote for a friend. If you do not read these, you will probably not be able to figure out the program. The original program was created using Microsoft QuickBasic 4.5, but the executable file was created using FreeBasic for Windows. To port the program to FreeBasic, I have integrated code from the user "yettifoot" on the FreeBasic forum which replicates QB's SOUND statement.

• More programs from the my early teenage years...

  • INSTALL.BAS: A text-mode, dialog-box driven installation program for IMG1.
  • CALC3.ZIP: A text-mode equivalent of the Windows calculator.
  • QUIZ.BAS: A program that gives you multiple choice tests.

Joe logs on after the movers fail to heed the 'this side up' sign on his computer only to discover, the dreaded Windows deskbottom.