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

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274 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 13 May 25 11:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | 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. madaxe_again ◴[16 May 25 20:20 UTC] No.44009468[source]▶
I guess I was really lucky that I started out on a bbc micro, then got my hands on a c64, then an Amiga, before finally beholding windows 3.0.

By the time I landed in the DOS world aged 8 or so, qbasic was my playground, and was easy to understand from the get-go, and Borland was where I cut my teeth writing something other than basic. One thing it took me a while to get my head around was that a 286 was not a 6502, and practically every little hack, address, anything CPU or memory architecture dependent thing I had learned was now irrelevant.

Coming from Amiga workbench to windows actually felt like a downgrade in many ways, but it was the computer available to me at the time, and retrospectively a good move, as by 3.11 it was clear the wind was blowing to PCs.

Either way, for me, growing with the machine was absolutely formative - the abstraction grew as I did, and I had started near the bottom.