Football was everywhere (e.g. calcio in Italy) The English codified rules for it but that doesn't mean Aussie rules or Gaelic Football are derivitives of the English game.
Medieval kicking games were everywhere, yes, in China and Florence and all kinds of places.
Unless you have some evidence to the contrary, I think it's quite clear they are directly descended. Factors include chronology, similarity of the games and both places being English colonies.
Proto Australian Rules Football predates European settlement of Australia and possibly even European settlement of England.
Marn Grook, marn-grook or marngrook is the popular collective name for traditional Indigenous Australian football games played at gatherings and celebrations by sometimes more than 100 players. From the Woiwurung language of the Kulin people, it means "ball" and "game".
And you're telling me you believe the white Australians adopted and codified this indigenous game instead of one based on English Rugby Football? It doesn't seem likely.
Like I said, medieval kicking games were everywhere, including marn grook, but I don't see any evidence that Aussie Rules is based on it. "Some historians claim" is the strongest sentence in that Wikipedia article.
I'm saying I believe that Australian settlers were heavily influenced by many things that indigenous people did; what to eat, where to find good water, how to manage land, but they rarely acknowledged that influence.
The original version of AFL played by English settlers was a great deal more like original Marn grook than 'modern' codified AFL - the playing area was larger and effectively unbounded (save by the need to score through designated goal areas, etc).
Indigenous influence on AFL creation confirmed by historical transcripts, historian says
Monash University historian Professor Jenny Hocking found transcripts placing Indigenous football, commonly known today as Marngrook, firmly in the Western district of Victoria where Australian rules founder Tom Wills grew up.
"We found in the State Library of Victoria records of a transcription of an interview with [Mukjarrawaint man] Johnny Connolly, who describes actually playing the game in the Grampians region as a child in the 1830s to 40s,"
You're entitled to your opinion but I'd hazard a guess you never grew up playing barefoot football on stony ground with aboriginal teams whereas I did (40 years ago).
Everybody seems to wear shoes now and many of the remote fields have grass now, with a few exceptions:
I'd like to know what happened to Squash. Up until the mid 90s or so it was really popular. Then it seemed like everyone stopped playing and courts closed left right and centre
I tried to get into it recently and found the cost prohibitively expensive to play casually.
Contrast with Pickleball- for $100 I have a racket and balls and can play on courts, if I pay $300 I can play almost anywhere, and that is the lifetime cost
Racquet sports and fitness trends come and go. When I was a kid, decades ago, squash was niche but well known, kids like me and my friends spent hours playing variations of table tennis, "pelota" was a cheap game with made-up rules ("tedesca" was another one, but on the soccer field, some of my older compatriots might remember), and "aerobics" was trendy in the few gyms that operated at the time.
Tennis always had a hard core group of participants, and padel is nowadays, by far, the most popular racquet sports in latin or latin-adjacent countries.
We had a raquetball court in my college dorm, which had been converted from an old city hotel. A friend knew the rules and invited me to play, and I ended up getting a set of rackets and balls. It was a lot of fun, and a real workout. This was in 1990. I never saw a court or an opportunity to play again after I moved out of the area.
Sometime in the 90s, probably, an unflattering portrait of the late Brendan Behan was unveiled in Dublin and was soon christened The unbearable likeness of Behan.
Sometimes buying well means buying cheap. I buy cheap DIY tools.
They're good enough for me as a hobbyist. But if I were a professional they be a bad buy. For one, with constant use, they'd wear out too quickly. Secondly while I can do accurate cuts on my £100 tablesaw, for example, each cut requires more setting up time, than on a quality saw with an accurate fence.
The whole point of TwinBasic is that it's to be 100% compatible with VB6 and with VBA.
From that standpoint there's no point comparing it with BBC Basic, Powerbasic, Freebasic, vb.net, purebasic, Xojo or gambas because none of those are in that space.
I'd like to hear more about who twinbasic expects to appeal to and why those people would want it?
Well there's a small but significant community of hobbyists still using it for... we're enthusiastic about it to be subscribing already well it's still in beta to support it.
Lots of businesses still have critical line-of-business VB6 code and can't afford or have other issues with the total rewrite required to move anywhere else.
And one thing almost every commenter who thinks there's no market is overlooking: VBA. VBA is still huge in the business world. 64bit Office has become the default, but if you want to create active-x controls for it? Your options are... nothing without using a whole different language, usually C++. tB already has initial support for creating 64bit controls that can be used in Office VBA (and any other COM host including .NET, on top of being able to compile to 32bit for VB6 if so desired). There's a number of bugs to work out, but I've gotten some of my very complex controls running. Then you can also make VBE addins. All with the same VBAx64 syntax and language features you're used to with dozens of new ones.
After the initial despair I know from experience I need to quickly try and recreate what I've lost while it's fresh in my mind.
It takes much much less time and I always feel that I've done a cleaner job second time around.
At times like that has occurred that this is the way to do it but I've never been able to bring myself to adopt this as policy.