twinBASIC Monthly Challenge 1 by Alex Hedley

In the twinBASIC Update: January 6, 2026 Mike Wolfe shared his weekly update, you may know him from the Mike Wolfe's Week in Review for Microsoft Access

Monthly twinBASIC Challenge: £100 Reward

From Wayne in Discord:

As we kick off 2026, we’re introducing monthly twinBASIC challenges, giving you the chance to win a £100 account credit redeemable against future twinBASIC licences.

Here's the January challenge:

📣 twinBASIC Monthly Challenge #1

🛠️ Self-Contained Diagnostic Tool

Build a self-contained Windows diagnostic tool using twinBASIC.

Your tool should report useful information about the system it is running on.

There is no single correct output - different approaches and interpretations are expected.

🎁 Prize

• £100 twinBASIC account credit
  • (non-transferable, no cash alternative, can only be used towards future twinBASIC licences)

✅ Requirements

• Built using twinBASIC
• Submission must be a single .twinproj file
• Produces a single Windows EXE
• Runs on Windows 10 and later
• No admin rights required (optional enhanced output when elevated)
• No external dependencies
  (Built-in twinBASIC packages and built-in OS / WinAPI features only)
• Output may be console or GUI

📊 Diagnostic content

Report information from at least three distinct categories.

Examples:

• OS version / build
• CPU information
• Memory usage
• Disk information
• Process information
• Environment variables
• System uptime
• Locale / codepage
• Network configuration
• Installed runtimes (e.g. .NET)

🏆 Judging

Entries will be judged across multiple categories, including:

• Usefulness of reported information
• Performance
• Smallest EXE size
• Well-documented or self-documenting code
• Interesting or clever use of APIs
• Derived or inferred system metrics
• Overall elegance and polish

Bonus points may be awarded for:

• Use of newer twinBASIC features (e.g. delegates, generics)
• Particularly clean or insightful design

Winner selected at the sole discretion of the twinBASIC team.

⏰ Deadline

Saturday 31st January 2026

Submissions will be locked after the deadline.

Discord

• https://discord.gg/UaW9GgKKuE
  • https://github.com/twinbasic/twinbasic/discussions/629

⬇️Download

• https://github.com/twinbasic/twinbasic/releases

🔗Links

• https://twinbasic.com/
• https://docs.twinbasic.com/
• https://github.com/twinbasic

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