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For me it was DarkBasic that got me into coding. I discovered it in a game magazine and immediately downloaded it and it was a whole new world. It had its own
by tomatowurst 5y ago
For me it was DarkBasic that got me into coding.
I discovered it in a game magazine and immediately downloaded it and it was a whole new world. It had its own weird GUI that was rendered in full screen, and there are almost NO youtube videos of some of the impressive demos like the 3D FPS Yeti game and others.
My early teen years were filled daydreaming of games I could make on it and thinking it was easy because well, Basic, I ended up spending most summers just running other peoples code, creating levels that never saw any use.
edit: nope I was wrong! found this old footage, brings me back memories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiKLEtSg9io https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiKLEtSg9io
- dham 5y agoOh yea DarkBasic. Good times. Do you remember the jetski game it came with. I never really made anything with it. Just got bits and pieces of stuff. I bought a license for Blitz Max and Blitz Basic also.
- mysterydip 5y agoI went whole hog down the Blitz route: basic, plus, 3D, max, and finally monkey. I'm actually back to using BlitzMax for a project right now! Weird nostalgia plus re-learning.
- justinlloyd 5y agoDo you remember which magazine?
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- pmarreck 5y agowow, I had never heard of this, this looks like it would certainly have been captivating at the time to a certain kind of budding coder. (I was a very anti-Windows Mac guy at the time, and also 28, so that probably explains why I never heard of it)