I think I fell victim to this very simple #BASIC #game that I found on the #internetarchive - it's called #Chase but it's also known as #Robots and you can find it here:
https://archive.org/details/kilobaudmagazine-1977-02/page/n49/mode/2up?view=theater
You can also play it on #rcbox #rc2014bbs - just exit to the CP/M console and type CHASE (note: the game only accepts uppercase characters)
Hey. I did a little Basic Program for the weekend 
Some say its a typical #ASMR Video, but I just hope you all enjoy the sound of our youth 
some loved it, many hated the screaming needle printers ... we called em sweet lawnmowers. And yes, I really loved the sound of these printers. If I only knew how to attach it to a modern PC ... hmmm but there should be a way, what do you think? 
Enjoy and follow for more #beerideas
#c64 #seikosha #basic #loveletter #oldschool #commodore64 #commodore
@dosnostalgic I hope Bill Gates has rescinded his open letter to hobbyists so that he doesn't come after me for having the source code for Microsoft Altair Basic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
#programming #BASIC #Altair #MITS
Wait for 152 seconds - Transmission64 BASIC One-Liner Winner 2024 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTqWw62zllY
@nickmofo , you'll probably like this #c64 #BASIC #oneliner
#programming #demoscene
Alright, I debugged this issue with "regex" parsing in ed.BASIC, so here's the public repo for the project: https://github.com/aartaka/ed.bas
So yeah, I have an ed re-implementation made in #BASIC. It's not a compliant #ed (1) implementation, because the "regex" are basically literals + wildcards. But it's already better than original BASIC environments' editors, I guess. So I consider this BASIC experiment a success. Looking for new projects to try BASIC on!
(I'm still worried that BASIC is stuck with MBASIC compatibility, and MBASIC is neither standardized nor ergonomic. But oh well.)
164 Landing #games for 53 platforms from 1969 to 2017:
Nearly four decades ago #BillG promised Andre Warufsel and me to send us the source code of his #Basic4K for the #MITS #Altair. He never did and @ModernDayNTK described one of my repeted reminders as 'winning last week's Stalking Bill Gates challenge'.
Three days ago he did eventually publish a scan of the source code on his blog.
I updated the story at https://gizmonaut.net/soapflakes/EXE-199711.html
BASIC INSTINCT – no, not the movie. 
#BillGates releases the original source code for #AltairBasic.
https://www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-page-topic/reader/microsoft-original-source-code
MICROSOFT A 50 ANS 
Née en 1975 grâce à Bill Gates et Paul Allen, Microsoft révolutionne l’informatique avec son interpréteur BASIC, puis MS-DOS, devenu standard sur IBM-PC et compatibles.
Avec Windows 95 et la suite Office, elle conquiert le grand public.
Aujourd’hui tournée vers le quantique avec la puce Majorana 1, la firme reste à la pointe.
Bill #Gates veröffentlicht #Quellcode von #Altair #Basic
#Microsoft feiert in diesen Tagen seinen 50. Geburtstag, angefangen hat alles mit dem Programm Altair Basic. Dessen #Quellcode hat Bill #Gates nun veröffentlicht.
#BillGates unearths #Microsoft's ancient code like a proud nerd dad
Founder shares 4K #Altair #BASIC source ahead of 50th anniversary
The code was the foundation on which Microsoft was built. Before Windows and before Office, there was a carefully crafted BASIC interpreter designed to fit within the limited resources available on the #Altair8800.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/bill_gates_altair_basic/
The Code: https://www.gatesnotes.com/microsoft-original-source-code
Man kann von Windows halten, was man will, aber die Entwicklungsgeschichte von Microsoft ist schon beeindruckend! Happy Birthday! 
I am a fan of #golang. I don't say it enough. My love of #python, #bash, and #BASIC, I wear on my sleeve, but among the many other languages I code in, I almost always appreciate an opportunity to use Go. It just clicked for me in a way rust never did.
(Obligatory disclaimer upon realizing the date that this is not an April Fools post.)
My proposal for this years SHOT conference in Luxembourg was accepted! I contribute to the "Code Histories" session with a talk about my #BASIC research project.
Nice, Hotpaw BASIC updated on iPhone & iPad. It's the same as Chipmunk BASIC for Mac, sorta for Linux & PC (it lacks a lot of graphics & system integrations on those).
#basic
The original #LISP had 7 primitives: \(\texttt{cons}\), \(\texttt{car,}\) \(\texttt{cdr}\), \(\texttt{atom}\), \(\texttt{quote}\), \(\texttt{eq}\), and \(\texttt{cond}\). And the original #Smalltalk syntax could fit on a 5×7 card. That meant a novice could learn the syntax in a matter of minutes, and direct all his efforts to learning how properly to wield the power of that Turing-complete language. This was why, in the 1970s and the 1980s, many college freshmen were taught FP in Scheme (a more modern LISP) and many middle school children were taught OO in Smalltalk. These were surely the best "first" #programming languages.
#FORTRAN and #BASIC were simple, too. FORTRAN, the first high-level language, has been in continuous use since the late 1950s by engineers, who are not keyboard warriors. BASIC was invented in the early 1960s for teaching programming to non-STEM students at Dartmouth. It sired a whole generation of self-taught children in the 1980s.
Compare those to C++, Erlang, Python, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Scala, Rust, Kotlin, and pretty much every language in popular use today. Most consider Python and JavaScript to be the simplest of modern languages. Yet, they are massive, complex languages. No 10-year-old could teach himself those, nor should he.
The original versions of those classic languages cannot be used to solve modern problems. But they should still be taught to youngsters as their first language. Throwing in the kids' faces a modern enterprise language confuses them and discourages them. Consequently, many novices never attain that state of flow, when the joy of programming gushes forth.
#Simplicity is a virtue. Self-motivated learning is virtuous.
Reminder: BASIC is the people's language!
https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22People%27s+Computer+Company%22&sort=title
(also I need to figure out if my 10-liner can be made into a game)
#basic #retrocomputing
2018-08-10
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