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Comment on Microsoft released the first version of QuickBASIC on August 18, 1985 on a single 5.25-inch 360 KB floppy disk

Yewb@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I met a dude on a bbs when I was 10 years old who gave me a pirated copy and taught me how to code in basic.

Holy shit if my kids did that I would lose my mind, I had no tech mentors so 10 year old me found one lol!

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TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
80s/90s computer nerd kids were a different breed. I figured out how to write directly to the character buffer and load bitmaps in QB when I was 11. Used it to create a rudimentary "windowing" and menu system using ASCII border elements.

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- wjrii@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Like yours though, it never went anywhere and was literally just a simple framework with nothing to run in it.
  
  Why are you talking about the QBasic sprite-based RPG "engine" I wrote in 1999? I was very proud that you could move the selection box with the arrow keys.
  
  Of course, I was also in college and not a tween, so maybe English was the right degree path for me after all.
  
  My "completed" QB projects were (1) a text-based "RPG" set in the era of the historical Macbeth, with (IIRC) five scripted encounters, and (2) a single-player Star Wars "Sabacc" card game based on 90% of the rules listed in the old West End Games sourcebook. The "AI" was a set formula not unlike the newbie blackjack rules posted everywhere. I think. Maybe that was planned for v2 though. I was fairly proud of the graphics engine that imported text files and assigned colors to pixels based on which ASCII character you'd used.
  
  These days, I don't do anything more complex than editing keyboard configurations in KMK.
  
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