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Post #666666

2025-07-31 19:03 UTC

Visual Basic was an awesome drag-and-drop app builder for early Windows. (If you wanna try, I recommend version 3.0 - works on Windows 3.x) I've only learned as an adult that there was a DOS version of it, porting Windows apps' UI-UX into a text-based environment. I find these ASCII components and multi-window apps infinitely cool! Below a few mins footage of me playing around with it. #retrocomputing #dos #visualbasic

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  • @f4grx@chaos.social 2025-07-31 19:53

    @crystal717 it also worked in windows 3.1 gui and the full IDE was a single file that could fit in a floppy. That was amazing. Vb6 was also good but much bigger.

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