Funny enough, Ultima I was originally written mostly in Basic (with graphics routines written in assembly). The stuff I was able to do in Basic in 1981 as a te

Funny enough, Ultima I was originally written mostly in Basic (with graphics routines written in assembly). The stuff I was able to do in Basic in 1981 as a ten year old kept me interested. Then like now I enjoy programming, but mostly as a means to an end. If anything, the fact that what I could program wasn’t as “interesting” as a commercial game (say) was motivation to keep learning.