Nina Kalinina on Nostr: When I was a kid, the only programming language available to me was BASIC for DOS. ...

When I was a kid, the only programming language available to me was BASIC for DOS. But BASIC in the early 00s was already quite different from what you might remember, thanks to libraries like DirectQB (VGA, 1998) and FutureLibrary (SVGA True Color, XMS, animated GIFs, music, 2000).

So, around 2003 I saw a really beautiful strategy game written in QuickBasic. It was called "Fomalhaut Soft's Polymer Technology Wars". It is super obscure, and there don't seem to be any info about it preserved anywhere. I can only find two screenshots preserved by the Web Archive, and none of them shows the gameplay.

I wonder how many thousands of games like that were lost.