[technothrasher]

What did you use for programming games?

I used a Basic compiler, but for the life of me now I cannot remember the name of it. There are several different AppleSoft Basic compilers (such as TASC and Beagle Compiler) but this one used its own variant of Basic, not AppleSoft Basic.

Dang, now I'm going to spend all day trying to remember the name of it. That and reminisce about the space exploration game I was developing that was going to take over the world, but mostly just ended up getting my middle school teachers to yell at me for working on it instead of the class work.

[ec109685]

I used Microsoft QuickBasic, then tried pascal and then C. The latter two were much harder to do any type of graphics programming (for me as an elementary school student). With basic, I could basically draw, xor out what I drew and then draw again and it worked well enough.

With C, (at least the way I remembered back then), you had to deal with QuickDraw, double buffering, etc. which was more complicated than I could deal with versus just being able throw up a game to play with.