tangentlabs

Microsoft even included REMLINE.BAS https://github.com/tangentstorm/tangentlabs/blob/master/qbas... Microsoft RemLine - Line Number Removal Utility Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1985-1990 REMLINE.BAS is a program to remove line numbers from Microsoft Basic Programs. It removes only those line numbers that are not the object of one of the following statements: GOSUB, RETURN, GOTO, THEN, ELSE, RESUME, RESTORE, or RUN.

QBasic was my second, but first real, introduction to programming (first being VIC BASIC). I was told not to press escape (at some DOS menu manager), but I did. Who knows how I wound up at QBasic. At some point I impressed some teenagers with a rainbow line on their full color screen, I was myself impressed with the experience: there was terminate-stay-resident called 'phix' that emulated VGA on a monochrome. phix broke the qbasic editor (blank screen), so I would have to make changes and then reboot (to clear the TSR) to try them out on my home machine. One thing I managed to do was to delete the entire source for NIBBLES.BAS (while the screen was blank due to phix), which my sister and I genuinely enjoyed playing. I just looked it up[1] and it was a mere 700 lines of quality BASIC. GORILLAS.BAS is one of my influential programs, and I w