remember GWBASIC, and the 486 runing at 12 mghz turbo

[mong_2]

hey i remember 10 years ago my dad buying a 286.
8 meg af ram. 12 mghz with the turbo pushed in.
my friend had one and when playing games in gw basic he had to use a program to slow it down.
ha haa remember gw basic.
i mean cmon. i learned to program on the bbc but when i moved onto gw basic, well that was big time for me.
or was i just retarded.

5 screen 0,1
10 ? "M0NG RULZ AT PROGRAMMING"
20 goto 10

or can any one remember the commodor 64
alias C64
remember peeking and poking the memory
or what about sprites. haaa jeepers that brings back memor`ys.

and not to forget the very early versions on c++ and quick basic.
man i must be insaine but i felt like sharing that with all you tech freaks that think you know it all.
lest we forget our roots.

[mourikise]

Man, what do you remind me of!!

Mine 286 was running at 16MHz but only 1MB RAM. Boy, you had 8MB!!!!! Whoah!

I never had a Commodore but when I was 6 my brother bought a computer: Spectrum ZX 48K! With the hard plastic keys, not the one with rubber ones. hehehe. I couldn't realize then why it was called "48K". It seemed to have more "keys" than 48!! hahahahaha. I'm now thinking of it and I just wanna laugh.

Thanks for reminding me those days!

P.S. GWBASIC really sucked, didn't it? What days!

[This message has been edited by mourikise (edited 07-28-2000).]

[mong_2]

yep

[mike511]

I remeber both. Up to two years ago i had an old 286 in my room. It ran at 12mhz's with the turbo hard 1 meg of ram and still i ran dos 5 and windows 3.1 and works for windows on it. The hard drive was a whopping 32 meg. Haha, the memory's. I also had a C64 and it still the greatest computer, the games for it then were in my opinion awesome for the time. It was a shame when we got rid of it. But i used it all they way up till 1994, and we bought it in 1982. In fact theres a picture of me when i was like 2 sitting at it with the keyboard in my hands. Okay thats enough of a trip down memory lane for today.

[EParent]

You can still run QuickBasic version 4.5 in a dos shell on any windows machine?

It's a completely discontinued program, but itès still a lot of fun!

[Szech]

I learned GWBASIC when I was like five or something. I used it to make some really basic programs (like ones that would endlessly say F*(# YOU! when you hit keys). Heh heh heh... yep, I remember...

[geekgrl]

Wow guys, you make me remember learning BASIC at a college camp when I was like 10 or something. I still have my book from that camp!

[garyd]

Does anyone have a copy of GWBASIC or QBASIC laying around that they can email to me at garydwilde@hotmail.com ?

[Vernon Frazee]

http://clarnet.com/qbasic/downloads.htm

http://www.thedigitalfoundry.com/tpp/cgi/wwwboard/messages/455.html

[garyd]

Thanks, Vernon.

[RayH]

Those were some hot rod computer, compared to my XT with two floppie (5-1/4") and a mono graphics card. I couldn't afford a hard drive nor a CGA card. Those were high priced items. But I was honking away on a borrowed 1200 BAUD modem!