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There may be something older, but I actually just ported over what may be the oldest files I kept around. In college around the turn of the century I did my last notable QBASIC program (I am an English major, though much more tech adjacent than most of my peers from the program are likely to have been), a rudimentary version of Sabaac, the card game from Star Wars, using the West End Games rules that are basically like glorified Blackjack. It's super basic (LOL), and I honestly don't recall if the computer is random or has a simple algorithm like Blackjack's "if >= 17, stay, else hit." The thing I was happiest about was a subroutine that takes in an external text file and converts it to a colored pixel from a palette of about 30-ish colors, so there is a deck of hexagonal cards in glorious MCGA.