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d3Xt3r 35 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory

And for the slightly younger folks who have more memories of Visual Basic than QBasic, check out GAMBAS: https://gambaswiki.org/website/en/main.html

vunderba 34 days ago [–]

Loved Visual Basic! VB3 was probably my first experience as a kid to the idea of “threading” and UI-blocking operations.

Remember this?

  DoEvents

d3Xt3r 34 days ago | [–]

I do remember DoEvents! Sadly it's not present in GAMBAS, but there's WAIT, which is kinda the same: https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/lang/wait

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