cross-posting a photo from @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social (https://archive.org/details/KevinEdwards6502TheMicroUser/page/n1) about #programming on the #bbcmicro where you can see the #BASIC of the machine also allowed you to inline #6502 #assembly

That's almost a love letter to programmers compared to what C64 felt like.

Battle on Hoth, a #starwars adventure in #BASIC from #yourcomputer magazine.

Download it here:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/460/ZX-Spectrum/Battle_on_Hoth

Is it normal for an #Atari #XE130 to only recognise 37902 bytes of RAM from built-in #BASIC?

Drive the car of your dreams in this #BASIC program from #sinclairuser magazine.

The mag claims it's "the first computer game based on Uncle Clive's electric buggy"

Get it here:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/14290/ZX-Spectrum/C5_Challenge

Oh, I love this one:

"Comparing #FORTH to #BASIC is like comparing a Gothic cathedral to a mud hut." - Steve Vickers

( Vickers is one of the fathers of the legendary #JupiterAce #microcomputer )

Source: https://www.theregister.com/2012/09/21/jupiter_cantab_jupiter_ace_is_30_years_old/?page=3

Hexadezimalzahlen umrechnen mit Basic in Dezimalzahlen. . Conversion from Hex to Dec in Basic.. https://youtu.be/pmqhRdT-xgM?si=ySEBfwrah4oTewLU via @YouTube #c64 #commodore #basic #Germany #Deutschland #The8BitBox

Oh, look! #Germany tries "free money" as an #experiment and somehow people are surprised by the #results. Turns out, when you give people #money for nothing, they like it. Shocking!
https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/article/a-german-experiment-gave-people-a-basic-monthly-income-the-effect-on-their-work-ethic-was-surprising/ #Free #Surprising #Economic #Insights #Universal #Basic #Income #HackerNews #ngated

A little #BASIC routine to create a 'psicodelic organ', according to #microhobby magazine

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

So, we're supposed to believe that the Jupiter Ace could have dethroned #BASIC with its Forth language magic? Spoiler alert: it didn't. Meanwhile, BASIC is over there sipping tea with #nostalgia, laughing at its wannabe competition.
https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-jupiter-ace #JupiterAce #ForthLanguage #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

In the middle of the jungle there's a great temple where Mark, our hero, must pick up 20 keys to reach the treasure.

Get this #BASIC program from #microhobby here:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/13633/ZX-Spectrum/MicroHobby_Semanal_073-076

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

Shoot as many aliens as you can in this #BASIC & #machinecode program from #yourcomputer magazine.

Download the file game here:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1164/ZX-Spectrum/Crossfire

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:

https://www.uvlist.net/groups/info/landing

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

A #BASIC routine from #microhobby to draw a ellipse.

PX & PY are the coordinates of the center, RX & RY are the values of horiz and vert radius