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by chrismorgan 945 days ago
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.)