I ran across this video on youtube, and it ended up being a lot better than I thought it would be at the beginning.

Clicky.

Same here

I think he forgot to back-up his brain. Which only adds to the hilariousness.

This made me stop and think, why don't I make back-ups? What's wrong with me? Am I an idiot? How do I do it? Do I just copy important files to somewhere else (not on the same hard-drive)? Next time my system screws up I'd like to be able to fix it myself.

How did you manage to figure out how the mouse worked?

I was a QBasic Nerd once.

Then I became a QuickBasic 4.5 Nerd.

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It's hard to imagine that is 14 years old now.

Well, the first day of reading in my Intro to Programming Basic class had all this neat stuff about how to use a mouse, like what single and double clicking is...

I really wish that was a joke.

I actually enjoyed that video . I can totally relate to the whole 'lost all my programs' thing.

I can't. When I got my first computer (a 286) I already backed up all my "important" stuff on 5.25" floppies. And the weird thing about that - most of them still work.
Can't say the same about my 3.5" ones.

QBasic brings back memories of course... my first text adventure.

Heh. I had to help numerous people (mostly girls) in my QBASIC class back in grade 9.

The teacher got pissed at me because the students weren't learning anything when I fixed their errors.

Nice video

Same here

wanders off and makes backup of his sources files

I saw that video on irc last night.. i laughed. that guy has a lot of talent. I learned qbasic from the f1 help file. Hahah.

My teacher was awamzed when I went online and learned how to do things he couldn't, like graphics.

I corrected the errors my teacher did, and we didn't even have qbasic classes. Or programming classes. Hell, we had a computer room, but no classes to teach us about computers. I feel old.

At least you school wasn't like mine. They gave the class to a math teacher. He did a pretty awesome job with it, though.

I really like those digital dice. I lost all my QBasic programs... didn't feel like they were worth keeping, specially after discovering C.

Nostalgia. I love my humble beginnings in Qbasic. And the like the rest of you, I quickly surpassed the class and teacher because I was so excited to get started in programming. Plus, there was a hot cheerleader taking the class and so I made sure to use my nerdy skills to impress her, consequently blowing any chance of actually getting any where near her. Ah, good times.

I had a pile of Qbasic programs from my highschool days, but I lost every one of them.

They were backed up and everything, too. On SyQuest removable cartridges. A pity my SyQuest drive broke, and I didn't feel like spending 300 dollars on a new one.

I never did much with Qbasic beyond what we were forced to do in Programming I. After that, I immediately made the move to C with some of my friends in the class and never looked back. I wrote quite a few programs in Commodore BASIC many years before that, but those were lost eons ago.

Matthew: I think your digital dice are infringing on my intellectual property, as I had done the same thing with QBasic 4.5. I believe that you stole my proprietary source code and utilized it in your own software. Expect to be served within the coming days. (The joke falls apart when you realize that my dice are only around 12 years old.)

I know as fact that I do not (at the moment at least) have any source code for some of my QBasic programs. I'm currently trying to find a copy (source or executable) of the last game I wrote with that language: a Wheel of Fortune clone.

i really dont miss qbasic or gwbasic

QBASIC was where I started, and I'll never forget my roots.

'my first program!
CLS
PRINT "Hello World!"
END

Harry Carey:

If your program is compiled into binary, Microsoft wants to talk to you.

http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/msbinary.html

There were three programs of worth I written (but lost because of a Hard Drive crash) which were for a basic programming class I had in High School (BTW, I introduced graphics to the class ). See if you can see the pattern:

1) A program that drew a pumpkin, holes flashing (via palette), eyes moving up and down, and a sound whose pitch match the height of the eyes (the lowest pitch sound use was when the eyes were at the lowest point, and highest pitch for highest point the eyes went)

2) A game where you're a farmer, and you are trying to shoot this one turkey. (Using GET and PUT or whatever for sprites) Turkey's AI was move in one direction for a random amount of time (there was a range), randomly pick another direction and repeat. When the turkey was over you, you lost health. Funny thing was my computer at home was faster, so at school, the farmer was able to out run the bullets he shot.

3) A program that displayed a Christmas tree with flashing lights (via palette again), falling snow (drawing simple lines by the time the program was done, only way to rotate the flakes, I think. Was trying to one up someone else in the class), and background music (with the title at the bottom). The thing was, I used a callback or something to keep the music going, and the string with the title up to date. The main loop only dealt with the tree (and maybe the title at the bottom) directly. I actually ported this to Allegro 3.12 (but it was before the crash above anyway). If I were to write it for Allegro again, the music handling would be in a timer function. Basically, if the music was not playing, change to next track, and update the title for the draw logic.

I may have done others, but not as good as those three.

when i first started programming (9), i liked making making my computer fill the screen with random colours and output random sounds, seizure type of stuff.

for(;;)
{
   fill screen with random color;
   output random pitch
}

My first computer class was Basic, and we would all write programs that flashed colors on the screen and write "VIRUS!!"

First off, your source code was truncated because it exceeded the size limit. But if anybody wants a good laugh, my Monopoly source code is very funny.

I started it when I was 11 or 12 in GW-BASIC. There was no Internet and I didn't know anybody that programmed. Everything I knew was from C64 books, which obviously wasn't the same as GW-BASIC.

The great part is half the code is GW-BASIC with line numbers and absolutely no concept of programming. It starts out:

10 SCREEN 0: WIDTH 80, 43: COLOR 11, 7: CLS : RANDOMIZE TIMER: DIM SHARED p$(40), p(40), po(40), dola, dolb, n, alch(14), alche(15), mortgage(40)
13 cl$ = "                                                                 "
15 FOR n = 1 TO 40: po(n) = 3: NEXT n: xxx = 20: yyy = 20: bbb = xxx: ccc = yyy
17 dola = 1500: dolb = 1500:

I had no idea what an array was (nor that they even existed), thus you see "dola" and "dolb" for player 1's and player 2's cash respectively. But at some point I had a revelation, and started using arrays. (Thank-you, QBASIC online help.)

I enjoyed making patterns with QBASIC, since it had such a cool IDE:

I love it!

Ouch. My ears bleed thanks to the Microsoft/Roland GM/GS software synthesizer sounds. Maybe in 20 years this'll have some camp value, right now it's just another viable torture method for the Abu Ghraib guards.