I was 12, and the internet was just starting up. My brother gave me his hand-me-down computer and also said I should try Q-Basic.
He never got into it himself, but before I knew it, I was recreating the phone call game from Leisure Suit Larry and learning how to make a game with ASCII characters as graphics.
Later discovered an add-on library called Future.Library. It allowed for VGA+higher graphics. I saw a tutorial online about making basic RPGs with drawn tiles. Characters were improvised with filled circle+lines etc... Later found a program that allowed you to draw images in real time, save them and load them, but it had slow performance.
He never got into it himself, but before I knew it, I was recreating the phone call game from Leisure Suit Larry and learning how to make a game with ASCII characters as graphics.
Later discovered an add-on library called Future.Library. It allowed for VGA+higher graphics. I saw a tutorial online about making basic RPGs with drawn tiles. Characters were improvised with filled circle+lines etc... Later found a program that allowed you to draw images in real time, save them and load them, but it had slow performance.