The code is on my HDD, and a portable version with Mingw32 and SDL2 (almost one GB in size) on my USB stick

Now I get it :D Yeah, it is funny reading it like that… thanks for sharing and nice to meet you :)

Sorry :S I don’t exactly get what you mean in that sentence :o Can you explain? :/

Wow! Thanks! I will explore it when I get the chance - who knows, I might even upload a YouTube video about it :D

Yes, well, I guess you can say that also about me, kinda - not entirely typical childhood and not typical life :S In a sense, I’m lucky to be able to code, as I know some excellent programmers who, once they got mentally ill, could not code anymore

Yep, that’s what you have in FreeBASIC subs (void functions) and functions (that return a value). FreeBASIC is actually C programming in disguise; it’s C with basic syntax and very powerful, plus any C library can be used with it (you just need to have the correct .bi header file for it)

When I was a kid in the 1980s, television was more appealing to me than the family computer. My older sister would input basic code (she would type it from kids’ computer magazines) and then let me play those games on the Apple II, or afterward on the DOS IBM machine it wasn’t till i was 23 years old till i had my very own computer and internet but didn’t know what it was for then at age 30 2006-7 i started using my computer for writing poetry and only at 2015-16 did i finally decided to learn to code… I wouldn’t try Python (although I tried it and have it on my Windows), I know it’s easy, you just pip install whatever you need; however, if you code in C, FreeBASIC, or euphoria programming languages, you will be much more rewarded for your hard efforts and the challenges

Hi there - thanks for reaching out :) Nice to meet you - my coding journey started at the age of 39 in 2016 with VB.NET. I completely missed the 1980s and 1990s era of BASIC; however, even though 30 to 40 years have passed, I still try to code in modern DOS/Windows basics like FreeBASIC and occasionally even QB64. I really like it, although to code for DOS with FreeBASIC, or GWBASIC, or QBASIC, since it’s just a hobby, I can afford it since I’m coding for fun, not money - I was told that if you start doing something for money, eventually you’ll hate it - I think I agree with that…

Hi, thanks for sending me a PM (mail). Nice to meet you - I’ve always loved basic, even if my programming journey started in 2016 at age 39 with VB.NET; however, I like FreeBASIC or GWBASIC, QBASIC, or even QB64 more than modern high-tech programming languages (I try to learn C and Euphoria too) - I guess I can afford it since it’s just a hobby for fun not for fee :)