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I have my tiny share of a QBasic Story. Please read this with a light heart and don’t judge me. I was introduced to Computers — as theories in school classes in the summer of 1992. By winter of 1993, my school got computers and I spent a lot of my time there, including many practices during the holidays. I spend extra effort to learn things that were not taught in the school. I learnt QBasic and started writing tiny…
I have my tiny share of a QBasic Story. Please read this with a light heart and don’t judge me. I was introduced to Computers — as theories in school classes in the summer of 1992. By winter of 1993, my school got computers and I spent a lot of my time there, including many practices during the holidays. I spend extra effort to learn things that were not taught in the school. I learnt QBasic and started writing tiny…
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I have my tiny share of a QBasic Story. Please read this with a light heart and don’t judge me. I was introduced to Computers — as theories in school classes in the summer of 1992. By winter of 1993, my school got computers and I spent a lot of my time there, including many practices during the holidays. I spend extra effort to learn things that were not taught in the school. I learnt QBasic and started writing tiny…
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I have my tiny share of a QBasic Story. Please read this with a light heart and don’t judge me. I was introduced to Computers — as theories in school classes in the summer of 1992. By winter of 1993, my school got computers and I spent a lot of my time there, including many practices during the holidays. I spend extra effort to learn things that were not taught in the school. I learnt QBasic and started writing tiny…
Yes, graph papers! I had an XT with a monochrome Hercules monitor, while in the factory where my father used to work there was a full blown 486SX. Envious of the plethora of the available fonts, I magnified the letters of the System [0] font with Paint, transferred them to a graph paper and took them home. Then for each character I wrote a separate (Turbo)Basic subroutine which would draw it in graphical mode exactly as it was on the paper. Finally I assembled these routines into an elementary editor. Nostalgia, yeah.
I have my tiny share of a QBasic Story. Please read this with a light heart and don’t judge me. I was introduced to Computers — as theories in school classes in the summer of 1992. By winter of 1993, my school got computers and I spent a lot of my time there, including many practices during the holidays. I spend extra effort to learn things that were not taught in the school. I learnt QBasic and started writing tiny…
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>They "trust me", Dumb fucks
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Two cartridges were compulsory : Extended Basic and Tunnels of Doom. I also had the E/A and expansion box with floppies - which came in handy for loading subs on the fly in Extended Basic, as well as being a better setup than tape for ToD. It was a little awkward with the only "namespace" being line numbers, but it worked.
Hell yeah, I forgot about ToD for a minute there. I was obsessed with that game for a while in middle school. I tended to play with a friend of mine who also had a TI-99/4A, and we very quickly figured out the optimal party was 2 fighters, 1 wizard, and 1 rogue. I'm not sure how many times we finished that game. It's amazing how many people love ToD. There's even a Youtube video of a guy playing the theme music on a…
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The primary difficulty that I had was the overloaded usage of the "=" character. I had a clear mathematical understanding that the "=" symbol was symmetric, that 5 = x and x = 5 were equivalent. That someone could abuse that notion so brazenly was the source of my frustration. Some languages use directional notation for assignment (see [1]): 5 -> x is clear. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment_(computer_scie…
Pascal and related languages use the notation x := 5 I have heard that this was to mimic (in ASCII) the look of an arrow: x ⇐ 5
x You could do:
x Perhaps we would have been better off if we’d all just agreed early on, that @, #, or ~ should represent assignment.
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Second this. I myself started with logo when I was 7 years old. Gratification was way more "immediate" than BASIC. After a bit, I moved into Basic, where I spent days and days doing small games, until a family friend introduced me to C and I found Allegro. I miss those days...
I had a similar Logo -> QuickBasic -> C(DJGPP)+Allegro trajectory early on. What is the modern equivalent for kids today?
QBasic was so much fun. Also because pre Internet time, the included help for each command was so good. Just the random number generator was no so good. SCREEN 12 DO x = RND * 640 y = RND * 480 c = RND * 16 r = RND PSET = (x,y),c LOOP enjoy :-) https://imgur.com/a/SSfaewf
QBasic wasn't pre-Internet (I had access to the internet before it was released.)
QBasic was pre-web, by three years, though.