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

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271 points rbanffy | 3 comments | 13 May 25 11:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.712s | 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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1. pram ◴[16 May 25 15:54 UTC] No.44006932[source]▶
Borland was just confusing. One of the biggest strengths of Visual Basic was how intuitive it was, even for teenagers. There was a reason every AOL prog was written in VB!
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2. GrumpyNl ◴[16 May 25 18:13 UTC] No.44008328[source]▶
VB came around 9 years later.
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3. layer8 ◴[16 May 25 23:42 UTC] No.44010789[source]▶
The first versions of both Visual Basic and Borland C++ were released in 1991. Turbo C 1.0 was in 1987. Maybe you are thinking of Turbo Pascal 1.0, released in late 1983, but I’d argue that one wasn’t confusing, if you were in the business of using early DOS at all.