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Old-timer geeky note: ah I think you meant QBasic? The Basic that was included in MS-DOS 5.0?

"QuickBasic" was the commercial compiler (like QuickC and QuickPascal), whereas "QBasic" was the stripped down IDE with interpreter that a Gorilla throwing bananas based on physics.

Memories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)#QB64_Ver...

It was no DONKEY.BAS, that's for sure. :)

Yes! QuickBasic 4.5 was my jam! I used to churn out apps with that left and right.

I loved QuickBasic 4.5! It could compile programs to .EXE files ;)

And from there, once you hit QuickBasic's limitations, it was a small step to Turbo Pascal or Borland C!

It’s about time MS open sourced QuickBasic or at the very least released it as abandonware.

Who did write GORILLAS.BAS?