• 7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I loved QuickBASIC. I’d write Assembly Language routines in Turbo Assembler and call them from QuickBASIC.

    I wrote a DeskMate clone for fun and it was actually pretty decent; TASM gave it decent performance.

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      1 year ago

      I tried writing an “operating system” in QBasic. Yes, I was that ignorant and optimistic at the same time. I still have the code. Standard VESA driver, high resolutions. Wrote my own terrible scripting language. But it was fun doing that. These days I rarely find any programming fun. It’s all tedious and dealing with middleware issues.