Today I walked a 16 year old in Ghana through the logic of what artefacts are, and why they are not committed to a repository.
Who would have thought such a thing was possible? That a 16 year old who has just been studying for 8 months could get there?
Adventures in a cave in this #BASIC game from #sinclairprograms magazine.
Get the TAP file here:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/40563/ZX-Spectrum/Desperate_Descent
BASIC 10-Liner Competition running until 5th April 2025! 
Otro programa BASIC para el ZX Spectrum de la revista alemana "Happy Computer" tecleado y listo para ser usado. Un simulador de vuelo nocturno publicado en su número 15 (Enero 1985), de aspecto sencillo.
Próximamente, en el archivo de Spectrum Computing.
Poco a poco, tacita a tacita...
Survive all the terrible spiders in this little #BASIC game from #sinclairprograms
Get the TZX file here:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/40574/ZX-Spectrum/Hall_of_the_Spiders
Kinda impressed that this old brick still (mostly) works 
It was my very first computer that I got from my dad for playing around with when I was 8 years old after he bought a new one for himself.
Has an Intel 486DX2 with 50 MHz, 4MB Ram and a 340 MB hard drive inside .
Unfortunately the floppy drive seems to be somewhat broken...
Get as many fishes as you can while avoiding penguins in this #BASIC program from #microhobby magazine.
Get the TZX file here:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/13630/ZX-Spectrum/MicroHobby_Semanal_061-064
I think the #BASIC RETURN command is the root of all #SpaghettiCode evil! It works like a #COMEFROM (https://shrtn.escalar.pt/OXnO) and hinders you to understand the code on the first sight (without reading it closely and executing it mentally). A friend suggested to change its function to RETURNTO. 
Cool blog post on Leaded Solder (one of my favorite blogs), where they make a space shooting game with Nintendo Family BASIC on the Famicom.
From unboxing to programming to the finished video of the game on YouTube, everything is carefully pictured, linked and documented-- an amazing post that really shows why I dig this blog so much.
https://www.leadedsolder.com/2025/03/11/family-basic-space-arcade-game-programming.html
Rosaline, a dating program in #BASIC for lonely hearts, published in #sinclairuser magazine.
Get the TAP file here:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/26745/ZX-Spectrum/Rosaline
Se o Sr. Incrível usasse MSX BASIC, nada disso teria acontecido.
https://retropolis.com.br/2025/03/10/se-o-sr-incrivel-usasse-msx-basic-nada-disso-teria-acontecido/
My #qbsh talk also had a number of easter eggs in it that were easy to miss with the lightning talk format. For example, the slides were all numbered in tens:
10
20
30
With the last slide header being "200 SYSTEM" to indicate that slideshow was now over.
100 Francs le kilo-octet !
(Image copiée dans MSX Magazine, on peut encore les trouver en ligne.)
'The cover of MAD magazine No. 258 from October 1985 announces a “special computer section featuring the MAD Computer Program”.'
Somebody typed in all the source-code to draw your own vectorised Alfred E. Neuman on your 8-bit microcomputer of choice, so you can render it yourself. They also explained all the Sergio Aragones cartoons in the margins, because cultural references have drifted a bit in the past forty years.
