Collaborate Disseminate
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
If you are a certain age or just like retrocomputers, you probably have a soft spot for good old-fashioned BASIC. If you miss those days but don’t want to install …read more Continue reading BASIC in Your Browser
The VTech PreComputer 1000 is a rather ancient toy computer that was available in the distant misty past of 1988. It featured a keyboard and a variety of simple learning …read more Continue reading Is Microsoft Basic Hidden In This Educational Child’s Toy?
Many people, one way or another, got started programming computers using some kind of Basic. The language was developed at Dartmouth specifically so people could write simple programs without much …read more Continue reading The End of Basic?
In the long and winding history of BASIC, it’s sometimes hard to keep track of all the different variants and dialect. Some may still remember TinyBASIC, which was published in …read more Continue reading TinyBasicLike: a Target-Independent BASIC Interpreter
Most readers are probably familiar with the near-mythical story of Bill Gates’ improbable rise to riches, infamy, and industry dominance. Which goes something like this. IBM originally met with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to license BASIC and some … Continue reading Tech Nostalgia: Bill Gates, Jack Tramiel, and BASIC (Premium)
The term ‘quantum computer’ gets usually tossed around in the context of hyper-advanced, state-of-the-art computing devices, but much as how a 19th century mechanical computer, a discrete computer created from …read more Continue reading Quantum Computing on a Commodore 64 in 200 Lines of BASIC
There are a great many pieces of software of yesteryear that are no longer readily accessible. It’s now possible to cross Microsoft BASIC for the Dragon 64 off that list, …read more Continue reading Microsoft BASIC For the Dragon 64 Recovered
It’s pretty easy to program the Raspberry Pi Pico in Python, or you can use C or C++ if you so desire. However, if you fancy the easy language of …read more Continue reading A BASIC Interpreter For The Raspberry Pi Pico