I really regret not archiving my projects as a kid. I didn't care to save much of anything back then so they got lost to various HDD crashes and migrations to other systems. I started programming at 11 and don't have anything I made before I was 19. Mostly video games in C++ and small PHP projects I did for money in high school. It's fun looking back at what I have so I really wish I had the stuff from way back in th…
It is ok. Sometimes the memory is better than the reality. How good do you think your code really was?
Look, I’d just like to try to figure out why moving using the numpad rather than the arrow keys let me outpace the monsters in that trivial QBasic game I made where monsters chase you. I don’t think it was a basic √2 oversight on diagonals, fairly sure it applied to horizontal movement too and was more like a 20% speedup. But I was probably seven at the time, no more than eight, and couldn’t figure it out back then.
Well, maybe I could find it, seven layers of backups deep; I think it’d be named CHASE.BAS. But just as likely it’s gone, and now I’ll never know. (Hmm, next time I’m at my parents’ place I should try hunting.)