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It's too bad Microsoft QuickBASIC isn't a thing anymore. Who didn't love GORILLAS.BAS?

• deleted 6y ago
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• pinewurst 6y ago
  It was no DONKEY.BAS, that's for sure. :)
• bobochan 6y ago
  Yes! QuickBasic 4.5 was my jam! I used to churn out apps with that left and right.
  • the_af 6y ago
    I loved QuickBasic 4.5! It could compile programs to .EXE files ;) And from there, once you hit QuickBasic's limitations, it was a small step to Turbo Pascal or Borland C!
    • 0xabe 6y ago
      It’s about time MS open sourced QuickBasic or at the very least released it as abandonware.
• Koshkin 6y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)#QB64_Version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)#QB64_Ver...
• wenc 6y ago
  Old-timer geeky note: ah I think you meant QBasic? The Basic that was included in MS-DOS 5.0? "QuickBasic" was the commercial compiler (like QuickC and QuickPascal), whereas "QBasic" was the stripped down IDE with interpreter that a Gorilla throwing bananas based on physics. Memories.
• miohtama 6y ago
  Who did write GORILLAS.BAS?