I was very impressed with Gambas when I was looking for a QBasic throwback to install on my son’s machine. We wrote a little arithmetic game with a UI and it took half an hour and reminded me of what programming was like before all the bullshit kicked in.
heck yeah GORILLAS.BAS was the first source code I ever saw and that’s how I taught myself QBasic, I still remember waking up at 2am because I realized how to solve the bug I was stuck on, all I had to do was move the line of code to the outside of the loop!
of course I couldn’t wait until morning but then I got in trouble because the keyboard was too loud
my game only had 5 levels so I proudly called it a “shareware demo”, I wonder if it’s still out there somewhere, etched onto the long abandoned platter
