Archives: Mac IIsi running QuickBASIC program Gendanken Experiment
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As I was combing through my 1 TB + archive files from the past, I discovered I still had MANY of my old QuickBASIC programs, unfortunately not all. Unfortunately, many of the files were in QuickBASIC compressed format (since disk space back then was premium), so I had to boot up a Macintosh IIsi virtual machine and load them into QuickBASIC to decode them. I discovered that unfortunately, the "resource forks" of the files were not preserved over time, so many of the graphics and sounds were lost, and those programs would not run. However, some of the programs DID run. This was a program I had devised, probably incorrectly, in middle school (approximately 1996). I was inspired by a book about a new emerging field called "Complexity" which partly showcased John Holland's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Holland work on genetic algorithms and classifier systems. I tried to build something similar from what I read about ECHO. I don't think it actually worked. Since middle school, John Holland was one of my intellectual heroes.