Gambas – open-source Basic for Linux inspired by VB

Re:Gambas – open-source Basic for Linux inspired by VB by thom on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @04:10PM (#35362734)

I was very impressed with Gambas when I was looking for a QBasic throwback to install on my son’s machine. We wrote a little arithmetic game with a UI and it took half an hour and reminded me of what programming was like before all the bullshit kicked in.

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Re:Gambas – open-source Basic for Linux inspired by VB by luxuryballs on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @09:08PM (#35366343)

heck yeah GORILLAS.BAS was the first source code I ever saw and that’s how I taught myself QBasic, I still remember waking up at 2am because I realized how to solve the bug I was stuck on, all I had to do was move the line of code to the outside of the loop!

of course I couldn’t wait until morning but then I got in trouble because the keyboard was too loud

my game only had 5 levels so I proudly called it a “shareware demo”, I wonder if it’s still out there somewhere, etched onto the long abandoned platter

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Re:Gambas – open-source Basic for Linux inspired by VB by gfosco on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:06AM (#35368690)

Heck yeah. There's a pretty decent chance it's still available somewhere. I can still find code I wrote almost 30 years ago for a tiny BBS software.

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