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I remember the "show the cursor on the screen and grab mouse position and clicks" was a common copy/paste bit of assembly back in the day. Looks like both qbasic and quickbasic supported it:

- dim asm as string

- concatenate your assembly together

- DEF SEG = VARSEG(ASM)

- CALL ABSOLUTE(SADD(ASM))

QuickBasic could load external libraries (potentially written in C or Assembly), but there was no inline assembly - just CALL ABSOLUTE on binary blobs as with QBasic 1.1.

> QuickBasic had support for inline assembly though if I remember correctly?

No but BBC Basic did!