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likewise man. for me it started with Gorillas.bas and a curiosity of what all this text meant and how it pertained to throwing bananas across a skyline. that later turned into VB3 and AOL. the rest is history. what a fun time in nerdy history. thanks Stratoscope, thanks Steve Case!

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Holy shit, I never heard anyone talk about GORILLA.BAS. It's also the first code I ever read, in 8th grade algebra class w/ Mr. Seaman (serious).

I didn't have a computer so I wrote a lot of BASIC in composition books, instead. I never got to run any of that code.

Also DOS32.BAS represent! VB6 was all I wanted to do when I got my first PC. It took me like a month to download a warez copy overnight with a download resumer. My dad wouldn't let me use the phone line during the day.

I used vb6 to make about 15k in high school in a slightly unsavory way.

I'm learning rust now.

It was bothering me that you had written GORILLAS.BAS as I remembered it as GORILLA.BAS. I hadn't seen it in 27 years, at least, so I wasn't confident. Anyway today I had a look, and we're both right.

The game was called GORILLAS, but was in a source file GORILLA.BAS

Published in 1991, 32 years ago. Dang. It was pretty new source when I read it. At the time, I figured it was old.

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