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

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292 points rbanffy | 2 comments | 13 May 25 11:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | 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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mock-possum ◴[16 May 25 14:40 UTC] No.44006069[source]▶
Ah QBASIC my first love
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1. PTOB ◴[16 May 25 19:59 UTC] No.44009266[source]▶
My first bug fix ever was getting rid of that stupid tail that kept growing and wouldn't go away when you moved in NIBBLES.BAS.
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2. chgs ◴[16 May 25 21:22 UTC] No.44009909[source]▶
Still have the tune in my head. Then years later when everyone was waxing lyrical about snake on a Nokia and I’m “isn’t this just nibbles” and nobody knew what I was on about.