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Gwbasic and later qbasic were delivered with MS-DOS
by hyperman1 2y ago
Gwbasic and later qbasic were delivered with MS-DOS
- pjmlp 2y agoYeah, but beyond the learning to program steps, it was about time to acquire programming environments for Quick/Turbo Pascal, NASM/TASM, Turbo/Quick Basic, Clipper DBase,... by whatever means, and the same for the knowledge how to use them, on an offline first world. And for this, one had to be curious, track down people with knowledge, either from computer magazines ads, hanging around electronic stores, eventually find people with similar interests, to meet them physically.
- anthk 2y agoExactly this. In Spain, 90's gaming was either the Game Boy or the Play Station, and PS2 in early 00's. Computers were for offices and most people began to use them at libraries and in early 00's, tons of people had a PC at home but download stuff from cybercafes. Getting developer stuff from magazines was mandatory, but these were pretty expensive and the materials sucked a lot.
- hyperman1 2y agoThere are other paths. In my case, I had no access to software from other people, but the library had tons of old books for programming all kinds of computers in mistly basic. So first I learned translating commodore etc to gwbasic. The peek and poke gave a trapdoor to assembly, which granted e.g. mouse access. After I managed to install gwbasic as a TSR, I realized I basically had hollowed out the interpretrr, and started writing straight in debug.com. It took 3 years before I discovered MIX C in a dusty corner of a bookshop. It cost a fortune for this kid, and frequently miscompiled things, but it was one of the first pieces of software I got that didn't come with the computer.