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A long while ago I bought 'Game Programming for Teens' though didn't have the patience I have now so I didn't want to read the book. I went up north this last weekend and just read the book and realized BASIC may not be as stupid as I thought it was. Considering I don't really know DirectX that well (learning it in spare time also) do you think BASIC is good enough to create small, small 2d games or is it completly useless? Also, if anyone knows of any free compilers I'd be grateful. Right now I'm stuck with the demo that's included on the cd.