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Microsoft released the first version of QuickBASIC on August 18, 1985 on a single 5.25-inch 360 KB floppy disk (en.wikipedia.org)
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[–] pezhore@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Like others in here, my first "hacking" was manipulating the included programs bundled with qbasic. One time I thought I'd be clever and make Nibbles add one life instead of subtract one when a collision was detected.

I quickly realized my mistake when a higher level became impossible and there was no way to quit (I don't recall if ctrl-c worked for those programs).