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Borrowed mine from the library at age 13 (`98) when i got a hand-me-down Apricot from a friend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apricot_Computers
Just realised we have Apple computers, Apricot computers, Blackberry phones, Raspberry (Pi) computers – is there some kind of fruit obsession in IT I've missed out on?
--------- ---- -- ---- ----- --- ---- ----- COPYRIGHT 1975 BY BILL GATES AND PAUL ALLEN --------- ---- -- ---- ----- --- ---- ----- ORIGINALLY WRITTEN ON THE PDP-10 FROM FEBRUARY 9 TO APRIL 9 1975 BILL GATES WROTE A LOT OF STUFF. PAUL ALLEN WROTE A LOT OF OTHER STUFF AND FAST CODE. MONTE DAVIDOFF WROTE THE MATH PACKAGE (F4I.MAC). I love comments like these. They also say that the GW refers to Bill Gates, as in Gates…
;The following block of externals was added on Dec 19, 1982 when BINTRP was
; Split up after the freeze of GW-BASIC Version 1.0
; This Split-up was not reflected in the PS1:BINTRP.MAC source.
; See Tom Corbett if you have any questions.Has anyone got it compiling yet? I've tried in DOSBOX, using this MASM from this (possibly sketchy?) site: http://www.mediafire.com/file/x13v7gqqmw1pom7/8086_Assembler... . The output is as follows: Microsoft (R) Macro Assembler Version 5.00 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1981-1985, 1987. All rights reserved. Object filename [GWMAIN.OBJ]: Source listing [NUL.LST]: Cross-reference [NUL.CRF]: End of file encountered on i…
Mentioned it in another reply, you'd probably want to start with the MASM and LINK from the MS-DOS 2.0 release. https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/tree/master/v2.0/bin
The funny thing about this announcement is that a week ago I just found my old QBASIC textbook that I learned how to program with back in 1998. QBASIC was my very first programming language; I was a nine year old kid who loved computers and would read anything computer-related that was available, including my mom's textbooks (she was returning to college at the time and took some courses on computing and applications…
My first attempt at coding was with a Java Programming For Dummies book around the Java 1.1 era, using applets. That was a terrible choice for 12 year old non-native english speaking me, and I never got too far. Somehow I ended up trying QBASIC a couple of years later and programming suddenly became a lot easier and fun. I especially loved that you could easily switch to graphics mode and just start drawing pixels an…
Awesome! I'd love QBasic from a few years later. I'd also love a nice, easy-to-run Ubuntu .deb for either.
Not a .deb, but still pretty damn easy to install: https://github.com/QB64Team/qb64/releases/download/v1.4/qb64...
In their implementation, BASIC code is transpiled to C++ first, then compiled and executed.
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Thirty years later, I still miss the Turbo Pascal / Borland Pascal, Borland C(++) experience. Few, if any, 'modern' IDEs have yet reached the simplicity and ease of that development environment.
Because the development itself has changed immensely. The closest experience today is probably the one of developing for Arduinos.
I wasn't particularly aware of it, but it looks like the TRS-80 BASIC that introduced me to programming was also probably developed by Microsoft, and I'm pretty sure that AmigaBASIC was as well. I think I also used QuickBASIC on the Mac a little, but what I particularly remember was a demo for it that visually showed different sorting algorithms, that inspired me to do something similar in Pascal.
I ended up studying electrical engineering, really liking the notion of using digital systems to control the real world, and am a network and security consultant for my day job.
Wow, Microsoft are really going full-in on open source. I think this means Open Source has won?
The funny thing about this announcement is that a week ago I just found my old QBASIC textbook that I learned how to program with back in 1998. QBASIC was my very first programming language; I was a nine year old kid who loved computers and would read anything computer-related that was available, including my mom's textbooks (she was returning to college at the time and took some courses on computing and applications…
QBASIC was also my first programming language. Learned it my Senior year in high school computer programming class back in 1995.
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Am actually totally digging JS DOS, the emscripten build of the DOSBox emulator. The performance is phenomenal in the browser, including vsync. Here is an example (CPU intensive) of multiple 64k demos running simultaneously on a single web page ;) https://js-dos.com/6.22/64k/index.html
8 FPS on MacBook2019 and Chrome...