I've actually got GW-BASIC running on DOSBOX on my home computer. Every now and again I get nostalgic and fire up one of the ASCII graphics video games or text adventures I wrote when I was a teenager.
I'm glad you mentioned it. I'm not certain if Atari Logo at school, or GW-BASIC at home was my first encounter with programming.
My dad was a EE, and he set me up with GW-BASIC after I checked a book out from the library that had each chapter ending with a "Try it in BASIC!" section. I figured that there would be no problem getting GW-BASIC up and running under dosbox.
