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What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?

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280 points rbanffy | 3 comments | 13 May 25 11:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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90s_dev ◴[16 May 25 13:28 UTC] No.44005274[source]▶
When I was a kid, my dad upgraded our home computer from DOS 5 or 6 to Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. It was the first GUI that I ever used, and it was amazing comparitively. Every app was mysterious and innovative and wonderful.

I tried Borland C++ and it was absolutely confusing, but I was probably just too young. Even QBasic was deeply confusing for a long time, but eventually I finally made a simple, terribly written and horribly broken Bomberman clone.

Those looking to experience something similar to that feeling should buy pico8.

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sksrbWgbfK ◴[16 May 25 14:10 UTC] No.44005746[source]▶
> Even QBasic was deeply confusing for a long time

For one whole year, I thought that Qbasic and Turbo Pascal were text editors that could also run games. I didn't understood that I had access to real compilers and that I could actually change the programs. Sometimes kids are stupid...

As for your Pico8 suggestion, you can always get the open-source equivalent https://tic80.com/ if you don't have the money.

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1. 90s_dev ◴[16 May 25 14:14 UTC] No.44005782[source]▶
Tic80 is great but Pico8 is better if you can afford it.

And yeah, for a while I avoided strings in QBasic because I didn't have any clue how thread or yarn or whatever had anything to do with writing programs.

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2. Sharlin ◴[16 May 25 15:09 UTC] No.44006423[source]▶
I remember being confused why the Pascal/Delphi fractional numbers were called Single, Double, and Real. Like what did those words have to do with being able to use the decimal point?
3. EvanAnderson ◴[16 May 25 18:00 UTC] No.44008207[source]▶
Sharing fun kid computer misconceptions:

I used a version of BASIC on my father's accounting computer that had an error message which included the word "ILLEGAL" (I forget what it was, exactly). I always assumed it had something to do with tax laws and the computer warning you not to break them.