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I remember being a kid and seeing BASIC in a book from the library and not understanding how to run it. I thought maybe if you saved it in a file with the right
by asveikau 1y ago
I remember being a kid and seeing BASIC in a book from the library and not understanding how to run it. I thought maybe if you saved it in a file with the right extension it would just run. Eventually I figured out how to use the interpreter.
- xnorswap 1y agoYou've reminded me of how I near bricked the family 386 because I wanted to more easily play GORILLAS.BAS. I was quite used to loading it up in QBASIC.EXE and then executing it to play. But I wanted to just run it by opening the file in DOSSHELL. I knew Windows (possibly just DOSSHELL?) had the concept of file associations, so there I went reassociating things in ways I thought might get .BAS to "just run". It didn't work to get gorillas working, and in the process it seemed to mess up a bunch of other things. This was very late for still using a 386, I think our friends had pentiums by this point. I don't know if my Dad realised what I'd done and kept quiet about it, or just didn't realise how I'd been fiddling with those settings, but I think the extra "things seem wonky" was a nice excuse for us to finally get upgraded into the windows 95 and CD-ROM era.