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But even in the MS-DOS era things were disconnected because with the exception of things like DONKEY.BAS, nearly every game was a sourceless executable. On mini

But even in the MS-DOS era things were disconnected because with the exception of things like DONKEY.BAS, nearly every game was a sourceless executable. On mini-computers and early microcomputers, games like "Star Trek" and "Lemonade Stand" were written in BASIC, meaning that you could dive in and modify the games you had just been playing.

intoverflow2 9y ago
> sourceless executable This doesn't matter, the point is the option to do more was always present. Kids are curious and if the option exists at least a few will find it and try to understand it. Sure you didn't have the sourcecode to Doom but QBasic was always there and to copy games off your friends and even run them you had to at least understand a few basic commands and intricacies of the OS. Not just tap store > tap install.