[ohdannyboy]

I really regret not archiving my projects as a kid. I didn't care to save much of anything back then so they got lost to various HDD crashes and migrations to other systems.

I started programming at 11 and don't have anything I made before I was 19. Mostly video games in C++ and small PHP projects I did for money in high school. It's fun looking back at what I have so I really wish I had the stuff from way back in the day.

My oldest program of any significance, a console based poker game, was lost with Planet Source Code and isn't in any of the publicly available archives. I started looking for it maybe 6 months after the site went down.

[thibaut_barrere]

I did the same as you, and did not manage to keep source code, but I kept binaries at least (https://github.com/thbar/demomaking) of some demos and games I made.

It took a while to find them back on the internet thanks to various archiving folks!

[esafak]

It is ok. Sometimes the memory is better than the reality. How good do you think your code really was?

[chrismorgan]

Look, I’d just like to try to figure out why moving using the numpad rather than the arrow keys let me outpace the monsters in that trivial QBasic game I made where monsters chase you. I don’t think it was a basic √2 oversight on diagonals, fairly sure it applied to horizontal movement too and was more like a 20% speedup. But I was probably seven at the time, no more than eight, and couldn’t figure it out back then.

Well, maybe I could find it, seven layers of backups deep; I think it’d be named CHASE.BAS. But just as likely it’s gone, and now I’ll never know. (Hmm, next time I’m at my parents’ place I should try hunting.)

[ohdannyboy]

Terrible, it's value would be entirely nostalgic.