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Seriously, just stop (or use Linux) (media.piefed.zip)
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[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, DOS had edit.com, all the BASIC stuff I learned was done in it

[–] dsilverz@calckey.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works @programmer_humor@programming.dev

Oh, I misremembered the file extension. Yeah, that's right, it was edit.com, there was likely no .exe because it was a relic from before Windows NT.

And, BASIC... Such great times. Although the BASIC flavor I dealt the most with was Visual Basic (VB5 and VB6), I also did some tinkering with terminal-based BASIC flavors (specifically, Linux ports of BASIC interpreters) as well.

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Really all I remember was finding gorillas.bas and playing like the spiritual source of the old scorched earth game...