From: Paul Richards <Paul AT dunvegan1 DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: games programming
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:29:54 +0100
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Bjorn De Meyer writes,
>It seemss to me that for such a young kid, BASIC easiest solution, 
>at least to make simple games. There is a DJGPP specific BASIC interpreter
>that uses the ALLEGRO functions as a backend, but I forgot the name...
>Check it out on SET's page.

I got into BASIC when I must have been about that age but I stayed in it
TOO long.  I ended up making a wireframe 3D engine in it at 9yrs old.  I
got a lot of bad habits from learning BASIC.

Make sure that he switches over to something better like C++ before it's
too late. :)
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