A friend of ours had a Tandy that had BASICA, which was basically a GW-BASIC clone, and our 386 had QBASIC since we had DOS 5.0 The problem was, almost all of

A friend of ours had a Tandy that had BASICA, which was basically a GW-BASIC clone, and our 386 had QBASIC since we had DOS 5.0 The problem was, almost all of the books at our school and library were either for Apple or some weird offshoot (PET for example) BASIC, so none of the joystick, graphics, etc code worked. There were some other books that were more business-oriented that talked about GWBASIC, but as an 11 year old I wasn't interested in balancing checkbooks. QBASIC had a pretty good online help system in the editor and a couple code examples, and I had a ton of fun when I discovered *SCREEN 13*. Maybe if I had gotten a copy of QuickBASIC (compilable and there were some game-related libraries available on AOL/CompuServe), I wouldn't have been so eager to jump ship over to Turbo Pascal and Turbo C (although it would have made more sense imo to stick with TP, as C was a lot harder/slower to do anything in as a newbie)