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windows 95 did come with Qbasic for MS-DOS. it wasn't the latest and greatest, but it did contribute to a moderately large online scene of kids making Qbasic ga
by ashleyn 2y ago
windows 95 did come with Qbasic for MS-DOS. it wasn't the latest and greatest, but it did contribute to a moderately large online scene of kids making Qbasic games or Windows-like Qbasic GUIs for DOS.
- bigfishrunning 2y agoThat's where I got started, copying basic code from the back of Boy's Life magazine, before I had a modem. I'm sure I'm not the only one here!
- binary132 2y agoI learned BASIC from those Usborne books on it, muddling my way through with qbasic. The PDFs of them are actually available on their site now!
- vrighter 2y agoholy shit, thanks for the tip! I also learned programming from those usborne books, using qbasic (The dragon32 ran a version of microsoft basic, so the code for it was generally quite compatible with qbasic). I'll go download them all for archiving.
- binary132 2y agoHere's the link for the record https://usborne.com/us/books/computer-and-coding-books https://usborne.com/us/books/computer-and-coding-books I tried to use the wayback machine version, but it didn't cache the PDFs right since I guess they're hosted on a public Google Drive
- vrighter 2y agothanks, got a local copy of all of them
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoDebug.exe still shipped in Win7 x86.
- paride5745 2y agoI remember in Win98 it being hidden in the Windows folder, if you didn’t know where and what to look for, it was pretty much impossible to find.
- spacechild1 2y agoThat's how I started programming as a kid! There even were a few sample games.