Myself - started off on commodore basic, and then when moved over to actual
PC's, we used GWBasic, QBasic, then TurboBasic and TurboPascal, etc.
etc....<smile>
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Kaldobsky" <jer...@kaldobsky.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] gwbasic
Ah the memories. I remember using both GW Basic and Q Basic when I was
much younger. I remember sitting for hours each day working on a star
wars game that turned out really well.
From following wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwbasic
"GW-BASIC was a dialect of the programming language BASIC
developed by Microsoft from BASICA, originally for Compaq.
It is compatible with Microsoft/IBM BASICA, but was disk
based and did not need the ROM BASIC. It was bundled with
MS-DOS operating systems on IBM PC compatibles by Microsoft.
Microsoft also sold a BASIC compiler, BASCOM, compatible
with GW-BASIC, for programs needing more speed. The language
was suitable for simple games, business programs and the
like. Since it was included with most versions of MS-DOS, it
was also a low cost way for many would-be programmers to
learn the fundamentals of computer programming.[1][2] With
the release of MS-DOS 5.0, GW-BASIC's place was eventually
taken by QBasic, the interpreter part of the separately
available QuickBASIC compiler."
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
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