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by Jaruzel 2066 days ago
Terminal.GUI looks fun.

However, I recall writing basically the same functionality as a QuickBasic library back in the DOS days. It's funny how things go full circle.

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This comment put a smile on my face, because reverse engineering Gorillas' QBasic source in DOS 6.22 was my first foray into programming. Good times.
My dad basically tricked me into learning programming through Gorilla. "How about instead of playing games I show you how to MODIFY the games?" and I took the bait.
Gorillas.bas :-) Remember it well. Chucking bananas was fun!
Wow, did that dig up a memory that I haven't pondered in a long, long, long time!
Wait until these kids see Visual Basic for MSDOS!
Wait until the DOS programmers see that Windows Forms programs can output to a console as well. (-:

* https://github.com/jdebp/terminal-tests/blob/master/PowerShe...

I feel a little sick looking at that :)