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That brings back some very fond memories. Another game included in MS-DOS was Nibbles. I still remember wrapping my head around how Nibbles worked, as the sourc

That brings back some very fond memories. Another game included in MS-DOS was Nibbles. I still remember wrapping my head around how Nibbles worked, as the source code didn't seem to fit the actual logic being run. It just looked way too short and simple. That's before I discovered how to view the source code of functions in QBasic. Then it clicked. The Internet Archive has these games available to play by the way: https://archive.org/details/NibblesQbasic https://archive.org/details/NibblesQbasic https://archive.org/details/GorillasQbasic https://archive.org/details/GorillasQbasic

quickthrower2 4y ago
That is brilliant, thanks. Takes me back. I didn't do much programming in QBasic, but I do remember that interface. I just now debugged Gorillas with a breakpoint and checked one of the values in the immediate window. It is quite a nice debugging interface, considering the constraints! (Actually it has a nice "just works" quality about it of something where the same people came up with the language and the ide and it is all designed together. Classic VS has this feeling too).