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Ah. GW Basic. Memories.

On the very first day our household had a PC, they called "the guy". "The guy" was supposedly a PC guru, and he explained to me how to load a program in GW basic. And he put GW Basic in my autoexec.bat so it would launch automatically.

On day #2, I had gotten hold of some games on the school yard and naturally attempted to load them in GW basic: "LOAD a:\alleycat.exe". It didn't work well.

But I quickly saw the errors of my ways, and was soon whipping up really cool programs in GW Basic, and playing IBM Alley Cat in black, white, cyan and magenta.

Good times. Sometimes I think IT as a whole went down hill from there.



Oooh Alley Cat! That game was so good!…


I never got what what to do in that room with the sleeping dogs :D Failed hard!

Good times.


Drink the milk!

Unfortunately the action key is Alt which does not play along well with browsers (they want to show the menu instead): https://archive.org/details/msdos_Alley_Cat_1984




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