Collaborate Disseminate
Although largely relegated to retrocomputing enthusiasts and embedded systems or microcontrollers now, there was a time when there were no other computers available other than those with 8-bit processors. The …read more Continue reading 8-Bit Computers Crunch Advanced Scientific Computations
Artificial intelligence has always been around us, with [Timothy J. O’Malley]’s 1985 book on AI projects for the Commodore 64 being one example of this. With AI defined as being …read more Continue reading All You Need for Artificial Intelligence is a Commodore 64
Sometimes, hardware projects get cancelled before they have a chance to make an impact, often due to politics or poor economic judgment. The Tsushin Booster for the PC Engine is …read more Continue reading The Tsushin Booster – A PC Engine Modem Add-on With a Twist
As the Commodore 64 ages, it seems to be taking on a second life. Case in point: Vision BASIC is a customized, special version of the BASIC programming language with …read more Continue reading New Release of Vision Basic: Hot New Features!
Suppose you decide you want to become a novelist. You enroll in the Hackaday Famous Novelists School where your instructor announces that since all truly great novels are written in …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Should We Teach BASIC?
While we don’t see it used very often these days, BASIC was fairly revolutionary in bringing computers to the masses. It was one of the first high-level languages to catch on …read more Continue reading BASIC Classroom Management
It may be hard to believe, but BASIC turned 60 this week. Opinions about the computer language vary, of course, but one thing everyone can agree on is that Professors …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 5, 2024
What do you do when you find an ancient piece of test gear and want to have fun? Well, you can always try getting BASIC running on it, and that’s …read more Continue reading You Can Run BASIC On an Old HP 4592 Protocol Analyzer
It wasn’t easy, but [D. Scott Williamson] succeeded in implementing Jacks or Better Video Poker in 10 lines of BASIC, complete with flashing light and sound! Each round, one places …read more Continue reading Video Poker Takes Your Money in 10 Lines of BASIC
[Gabriel Gambetta] knows a few things about ray tracers, being the author of Tiny Raytracer, a raytracer written in just 912 bytes of JavaScript. As a long-time fellow sufferer of …read more Continue reading A ZX Spectrum Raytracer, in BASIC