Note: I am not the person in the imgur. The title was changed after I submitted to one that is, IMHO, much more confusing.

(original title was "An Australian, isolated from 1999-2006 with a 486. Built his own late 80s OS").

My experience level with computers was minimal; I had basic knowledge of running games from the DOS prompt or a particular type of DOS Shell that my dad had set up on our home computer.

Other than that, I had no knowledge. I didn't know anything about processor power, RAM, etc.

I'm not sure if it's used for anything anymore, but QBASIC is, I believe, freely available on Microsofts legacy FTP. It's a very safe and easy to use environment to learn about putting together some basic programs (hence the name BASIC?). If you learned to say, build a calculator in QBASIC, it wouldn't be hard to take that programming knowledge and move it across to a modern language like C.

Reminds me of the story recently about the guy who built a game over what, ten years or so? (Can't find a link right now.)

"Babylonian twins"? Made by a Iraqi starting in the 90s.

http://obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/itwshihab_en.p...

Tobias and the Dark Sceptres? http://www.tobiasgame.co.uk/

Ha, no IIRC he began in college in the 90's, developing for the Windows platform, and finished it many years later, and his post documented its evolution and had the same sort of feel of working with outdated technologies, but seeing it through to the end.

Dwarf Fortress? Who's development is ongoing?