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Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🔪 🙄<p>The cover here is great, but giving false advertising. No Apple ][ game looked that good, were not in cabinets (that's Atari.), and pretty women in flimsy dresses were not going to be enthralled by your space videogame.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/Apple_Graphics_Arcade_Game_Design" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/Apple_Grap</span><span class="invisible">hics_Arcade_Game_Design</span></a></p><p>Also storybooks with type-ins that don't do much.<br><a href="https://archive.org/details/The_Science_Fiction_Computer_Storybook" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/The_Scienc</span><span class="invisible">e_Fiction_Computer_Storybook</span></a><br><a href="https://archive.org/details/The_Mystery_and_Adventure_Computer_Storybook" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/The_Myster</span><span class="invisible">y_and_Adventure_Computer_Storybook</span></a></p><p><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/appleii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>appleii</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a></p>
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🔪 🙄<p>Programming Tricks &amp; Skills<br>Professional tips and hints for better program writing<br><a href="https://archive.org/details/programming-tricks-and-skills/mode/1up" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/programmin</span><span class="invisible">g-tricks-and-skills/mode/1up</span></a><br><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a></p>
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🔪 🙄<p>Or for old-timey BASIC, you can still have style:<br><a href="https://archive.org/details/The_Little_Book_Of_BASIC_Style_by_John_Nevison/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/The_Little</span><span class="invisible">_Book_Of_BASIC_Style_by_John_Nevison/</span></a><br><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a></p>
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🔪 🙄<p>Oh, this is super useful. I had this book, but samizdat photocopies in a binder. Getting any non-German docs for GFA was a nightmare back then.</p><p>Also gives me a real Traveller vibe.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/GFA_BASIC_Book/mode/2up" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/GFA_BASIC_</span><span class="invisible">Book/mode/2up</span></a><br><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a></p>
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🔪 🙄<p>The best of the best computer magazine of all time:<br><a href="https://archive.org/search?query=%22best+of+creative+computing%22&amp;sort=title" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/search?query=%22be</span><span class="invisible">st+of+creative+computing%22&amp;sort=title</span></a><br><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> </p><p>If you're gonna read anything I link to, *read these*. Type in some programs with a BASIC like<br><a href="http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="">nicholson.com/rhn/basic/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
lfa :emacs: :tux: :freebsd:<p>Back to BASICs 😉 </p><p><a href="https://hostux.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/MSX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSX</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>8bit</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/CanonV20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanonV20</span></a></p>
Davide Bucci<p>If you want to run it on DOSBox, or have a peek to the source code of my fantasy football management program, I put it here: <a href="http://davbucci.chez-alice.fr/index.php?argument=retroc/oldp/oldp.inc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">davbucci.chez-alice.fr/index.p</span><span class="invisible">hp?argument=retroc/oldp/oldp.inc</span></a> I used a technique to sort of include inline assembly that was quite elegant and that I learnt from a paper by Francesco Balena in the mid-1990's. <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/retrocoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocoding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/QuickBasic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuickBasic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Fantacalcio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fantacalcio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a></p>
Hundstrasse<p>81Zombies is now officially a thing! It's possibly the best turn-based-desk-building game that's been released for ZX81 all day, so feel free to check it out! <a href="https://hundstrasse.itch.io/81zombies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">hundstrasse.itch.io/81zombies</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/ZX81" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZX81</span></a> <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Basic</span></a> <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Timex1000" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Timex1000</span></a> <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Sinclair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sinclair</span></a></p>
lfa :emacs: :tux: :freebsd:<p>I was playing around with the Mega65 emulator. It's the first BASIC I've typewritten since the 80s and it was fun. Maybe I'll buy one of these modern retrocomputing like machines 😉</p><p>The listing is the Monster Chase Program from the book Stimulating Simulations by C. William Engel.</p><p><a href="https://hostux.social/tags/Mega65" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mega65</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/c65" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>c65</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/c64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>c64</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commodore</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Steve Grunwell<p>In the summer of 2008, I was at a small agency doing video work. When our "webmaster" left, my boss asked if I could "make heads or tails of this <a href="https://phpc.social/tags/PHP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PHP</span></a>".</p><p>Smug from years of writing <a href="https://phpc.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> on a TI-83+, I decided to give it a shot and ended up changing my career trajectory.</p><p>Happy 30th, PHP! You're not the only language, but you're the one I always come back to 😁</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://appdot.net/@mdhughes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mdhughes</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@foone" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>foone</span></a></span> kinda like the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Subor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Subor</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SB926" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SB926</span></a> with F-<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Basic</span></a>...</p><p>Where it needs <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzaRyirU_EI&amp;t=10m31s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">some time to think about</a> the (software-emulated) <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FloatibgPoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FloatibgPoint</span></a> calculations...</p>
Juan F. Ramírez<p>Beetle Run, a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> game from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sinclairprograms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sinclairprograms</span></a> magazine.</p><p>Download:<br><a href="https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/40925/ZX-Spectrum/Beetle_Run" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/</span><span class="invisible">40925/ZX-Spectrum/Beetle_Run</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zxspectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zxspectrum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a></p>
Marcos<p>Got the base <a href="https://clacks.link/tags/RC2014" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RC2014</span></a> up and running, and now I'm trying to remember how to program in <a href="https://clacks.link/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a>. 🙂 And search engines are no help for resources. Anybody have any interesting places you go for BASIC programs and help writing programs?</p>
peruho 🇯🇵→🇪🇸<p>I'll have some free time this summer, hope I can make something during that time 😄 <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MSX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a></p>
Stewart Russell<p>TIL that BBC BASIC prints strings to file backwards</p><p><a href="https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=31157" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopi</span><span class="invisible">c.php?t=31157</span></a></p><p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/BBCMicro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBCMicro</span></a></p>
Paolo Amoroso<p>"Stimulating Simulations: Ten unique programs in BASIC for the computer hobbyist" by William Engel, published in 1977, was in the great tradition of project based books of the early personal computing era. It presented ideas and BASIC code for simulation programs in domains from games to space flight and business.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/Stimulating_Simulations_1977_C_William_Engel/mode/2up?view=theater" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/Stimulatin</span><span class="invisible">g_Simulations_1977_C_William_Engel/mode/2up?view=theater</span></a></p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a></p>
Karsten Schmidt<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://appdot.net/@mdhughes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mdhughes</span></a></span> This old little East German book from 1988 covers similar topics (and much more[1]) was one of the most life-changing books for me during my teenage years:</p><p>Computer und Kunst<br><a href="https://archive.org/details/computerundkunst0000volz" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/computerun</span><span class="invisible">dkunst0000volz</span></a></p><p>[1] Other Topics also included information/music theory, cognition, Markov chains, fractals, text analysis, poetry/music generation...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/GenerativeArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/AlgorithmicArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlgorithmicArt</span></a> # <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Graphics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Graphics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a></p>
Stewart Russell<p>Running BBC BASIC for ARM on a BBC Micro equipped with a PiTubeDirect and Raspberry Pi Zero is almost 5000× faster than on the original 2 MHz 6502</p><p>(these are real beeb screenshots, taken using RGBtoHDMI)</p><p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/BBCMicro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBCMicro</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/ARM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ARM</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a></p>
Crazy Cat Lady<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fairdinkum.one/@John" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>John</span></a></span> it is sad that DJT can’t get things right, can’t investigate his accusations properly and has changed discussions in the White House into ambush attacks on people from other countries. <br>Can we all please, stop groveling to the idiot and let him sit in his own sewerage for a bit. Stop talking to him stop sending things to him stop including him. He mentally can’t handle being in charge of a piss up in a brewery let alone running a country. <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/AUSpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AUSpol</span></a> <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> human rights.</p>
Juan F. Ramírez<p>Graffiti, a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> program from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/yourcomputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>yourcomputer</span></a> magazine that lets you write in any of 8 directions.</p><p>Get its TZX file here:<br><a href="https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/27013/ZX-Spectrum/Video_Graffiti" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/</span><span class="invisible">27013/ZX-Spectrum/Video_Graffiti</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zxspectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zxspectrum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a></p>
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