I've been thinking I need a #fun side project for when I'm not feeling working on big things. I have the source #code for a few old #DOS#games I've hacked on a few times.
The games were written in #QuickBasic (and it's predecessors) and in the past I've used #QB64 to get them running natively on Windows....
Now I'm thinking of using an #LLM (e.g. like that powering #github#copilot) to translate the code into a modern language.
Wrote a tool in #QBasic (#QB64) to modify INI files and I thought it’d be quick enough even in BASIC but it’s incredibly slow, taking seconds to modify a file. I suspect this is because the process of reading a line from the input file and writing it to the output file is causing the disk-cache to ping-pong between files so I’ll have to do it in-memory