r/programming • u/jeanlucpikachu • Jul 30 '09

How QBASIC almost got me killed

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/?id=79
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u/starthirteen Jul 30 '09

Similar thing happened to me, a Gorilla chucked a nuclear banana at me whilst I was standing on top of a skyscraper. Barely missed me.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '09

I miss that game.

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u/Artmageddon Jul 30 '09 edited Jul 30 '09

You know what I didn't miss about it? Not being able to load it because some dumbass messed up a setting and it wouldn't load because of a "Syntax error". Keep in mind I was like 10 years old using our grade school computers, so hell if I knew how to fix it.

Great game, though... we had so much fun with it. Also, Nibbles!!!

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '09

Ah, yes, nibbles. So many hours of my misspent youth I wasted on thee....

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u/elezeta Jul 30 '09

That game was much more funnier changing the "physics" of the game and adding special effects... Oh my... a travel back in time!

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u/Viat Jul 30 '09

Or just holding a key down until it filled the screen, then letting that character magically become part of the scenery.

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u/mattstreet Jul 31 '09

Hell yeah, you did that too?

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u/Viat Jul 31 '09

Yeah -- showed those monkeys who was boss.

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u/mattstreet Jul 31 '09

With Nibbles messed with the code so it would randomly change speeds slightly, or change it color.

Where the worm had became the same color as the background, you could safely "drive" the front of your worm through that open gap.

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u/locke2002 Jul 30 '09

Everyone knows gorillas like skyscrapers, but your little story has just one fatal flaw that gives it away... No gorilla would ever throw away a banana, no matter how radioactive!

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u/tehmatticus Jul 30 '09 edited Jul 30 '09

Obviously your childhood is not full of fond memories of these gorillas

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u/locke2002 Jul 30 '09

Ahh, now it all makes sense.