Fun fact about my programming career:
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Anyway, implementing a simple choose-your-own-adventure game with randomized endings in MS-DOS 5 Batch files is the kind of thing I might to today as a weird retrocomputing project, because it's obviously such a terrible way to make a game that it's an interesting intellectual challenge to figure out how to do, you know?
And I had to do it at age 10 as my first program with only a programming guide for A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE and a DOS manual explaining all the batch commands
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I think this explains a lot about me.
So if you were ever wondering why the fuck I'm like this:this is either why, or proof that I've been like this for decades.
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@foone At the risk of asking a dumb question... why not?!? I thought BASIC came with every PC of DOS vintage.
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@stilescrisis I got the PC used, with no install disks, and the previous owner deleted the BASIC program
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Here's hoping I can continue to be like this for decades more.
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@foone Not likely, but it'd be funny if so. It'd require a secret sibling to exist.
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@lykso my wife found out she has TWO separate Secret Siblings, so it's not impossible!
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@foone older computer and it'd be in the bios.
we should bring back bios basic, we know there is room in there...
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@RueNahcMohr yeah! I keep wanting to design a PCIe card that just adds BASIC-in-uefi through an option rom
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Gregly: Aberrationreplied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@foone It wasn’t my first program, but while in junior high I wanted to port Apple LOGO programs to my PC, but all I had was QuickBASIC, so I wrote a library of subroutines that emulated the LOGO turtle graphics well enough that I could translate the programs without much difficulty.
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Gregly: Aberration last edited by
@gregly nice!