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Reminds me of all the "OSes"/GUIs that got made back in the QBasic days: http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/ http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/ Always a fun

Reminds me of all the "OSes"/GUIs that got made back in the QBasic days: http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/ http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/ Always a fun project to do. Thanks for carrying the torch forward in something modern! ps, my favorite of the QBasic ones is probably M-GUI: http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/95_mgui.html http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/95_mgui.html which even included its own programming language to make apps in!

VMG 3y ago
Fascinating. I wish I could run them in a browser VM - it would probably be pretty fast as well.
Retr0id 3y ago
>Because this site still gets a lot of traffic, I'll be redesigning the site with more of a modern look and feel. [...] I'll try to keep you posted and hopefully won't get sidetracked. Looks like they did get sidetracked, and I'm glad! If the author is reading this, I think it's a great time capsule that's probably best left as-is.
- chalst 3y ago
  Another time capsule, this time in the form of an endolink: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38938998 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38938998
anticorporate 3y ago
That was how I learned to program, back in the 90s when I was a teenager. But it was never what I meant to do. I was quite sure I was going to be a game developer. Knowing absolutely nothing about designing a game, managing a project, et cetera, I just starting writing games at the beginning, with a splash screen or animation, and then started writing the start GUI for the game. For a 13 year old pushing the boundary of what you could do with QBasic and mode 13h graphics, I never quite got past designing the GUI, but I made a heck of a lot of them.
luismedel 3y ago
DOS-based GUIs were the rage in its days. In 1999 I coded a graphical environment for DOS using Borland's BGI in Turbo Pascal. I even used it in one of my uni assignments[0]. I still remember some afternoons in the library, helping pals with linked lists basics and finetuning my textbox scroll code. Good times. [0] https://github.com/luismedel/jugadores https://github.com/luismedel/jugadores edit: Forgot to add that I wrote a lot of code in paper :-)
franzb 3y ago
This is absolutely amazing! It brings back great memories of my childhood when I was doing similar mock UIs in QBasic, then QuickBasic, Turbo Pascal and Turbo C. Thanks for sharing!
TonyTrapp 3y ago
GIMI was quite impressive as well, also including its own programming language, but also getting some heavy-lifting weight from a handful of tools written in other languages: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimi/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimi/
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VMG 3y ago

Fascinating. I wish I could run them in a browser VM - it would probably be pretty fast as well.

Retr0id 3y ago

>Because this site still gets a lot of traffic, I'll be redesigning the site with more of a modern look and feel. [...] I'll try to keep you posted and hopefully won't get sidetracked. Looks like they did get sidetracked, and I'm glad! If the author is reading this, I think it's a great time capsule that's probably best left as-is.

chalst 3y ago
Another time capsule, this time in the form of an endolink: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38938998 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38938998

anticorporate 3y ago

That was how I learned to program, back in the 90s when I was a teenager. But it was never what I meant to do. I was quite sure I was going to be a game developer. Knowing absolutely nothing about designing a game, managing a project, et cetera, I just starting writing games at the beginning, with a splash screen or animation, and then started writing the start GUI for the game. For a 13 year old pushing the boundary of what you could do with QBasic and mode 13h graphics, I never quite got past designing the GUI, but I made a heck of a lot of them.

luismedel 3y ago

DOS-based GUIs were the rage in its days. In 1999 I coded a graphical environment for DOS using Borland's BGI in Turbo Pascal. I even used it in one of my uni assignments[0]. I still remember some afternoons in the library, helping pals with linked lists basics and finetuning my textbox scroll code. Good times. [0] https://github.com/luismedel/jugadores https://github.com/luismedel/jugadores edit: Forgot to add that I wrote a lot of code in paper :-)

franzb 3y ago

This is absolutely amazing! It brings back great memories of my childhood when I was doing similar mock UIs in QBasic, then QuickBasic, Turbo Pascal and Turbo C. Thanks for sharing!

TonyTrapp 3y ago

GIMI was quite impressive as well, also including its own programming language, but also getting some heavy-lifting weight from a handful of tools written in other languages: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimi/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimi/

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