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)
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
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
Pour fêter le 50ème anniversaire de la fondation de Microsoft (4/4/1975 Micro-Soft à l'époque) avec son (défunt) ami Paul Allen, Bill Gates rend public le code source de son BASIC pour Altair, le logiciel à la base de la société.
Il existait des listings désassemblés mais ici l'original en assembleur Intel 8080 avec les commentaires (scan PDF pour le moment)
Info détaillées dans le blog Gates notes
https://www.gatesnotes.com/microsoft-original-source-code
I d'idnt have
«Reverse éngineering BASIC syntax from exámples in à French Thomson TO7 book»
on my Bìngó cárd but here we àre.
- https://archive.org/details/p.-s.-i.-basic-plus-80-routines-sur-mo-5-et-to-7-70/page/13/mode/1up
#ThomsonTO7 #BASIC
#RetroComputing
Pardon my #French
Repórter Retro 112
https://retropolis.com.br/2025/03/29/reporter-retro-112/
#ReprterRetro #6502 #68030 #ActionRetro #Actor #Anos60 #ApolloComputer #Apple #AppleIIc #Arcade #ArnaudDeKlerk #Assembler #Assembly #AtariSt #BASIC #Bruxaria #bug #CasualRetroGamer #CGA #ChandlerKlser #CoCo3 #CoCoBASIC #CodeWithHuw #ColecoAdam #Commodore64 #DavesGarage #Delphi #Demo #demoscene #DougBrown #EditorDeTexto #emulao #erros #filehunter #GEM #GUI #Gypsy #HarwellCADET #KevinMitnick #Librascope #Macintosh #M
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
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
Kommenden Monat verramscht #Sony in #PlayStationPlus #Basic das aktuelle #Bioware #Spiel #dragon_age_the_veilguard. Hab ernsthaft überlegt es zu kaufen, jetzt kann ich es ohne zusätzliche Kosten spielen. Über #TMNT_The_Cowabunga_Collection 13 Spiele mit den Pizza mümmelnden mutierten Schildkröten die ursprünglich zwischen 1989 und 1993 für #ArcadeAutomaten, #NES, #SNES, #GameBoy und #SegaMegaDrive erschienen sind freue ich mich aber um ein Vielfaches mehr!
#SEGA did very few computers. The #SegaSC3000 was based on their first crappy console, but actually had one of the best #BASIC around. Then I realized the #SegaMarkIII , which has excellent graphics, could still be extended as a computer with the SK1100 extension and the only compatible version of the basic. I was able to create a 2 ways basic source to wave tape format converter, and find the trick to inject #z80 cross assembler binaries through basic. So, basically, i have a computer version of the #SegaSMS but with 60hz display. Also with #katakana keyboard and charset , for which i did a utf8 converter. #retrogeek #retrocomputing
FujiNet Battleship, new #Atari8bit computers game for Basic 10 Liner Contest 2025. Network gaming with 10 lines of 256 characters only. https://bunsen.itch.io/fujinet-battleship-atari-8-bit-by-eric-carr #atari #retrogames #retrogaming #BASIC #fujinet
This #BASIC routine from #microhobby draws a flower after entering the number of petals, radius of the flower and radius of the petals
Basically, It’s BASIC - The BASIC language may be considered old-hat here in 2025, and the days when a com... - https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/basically-its-basic/ #sinclairzxspectrum #retrocomputing #softwarehacks #basic
I still feel some of the excitement I felt in 1983 when I held this in my hands for the first time. I wish I had hung on to my copy. #BASIC #programming #zxspectrum #c64
A productive afternoon/evening in the #8bit world. Switched from coding natively on the #mega65 to setting up a cross platform development environment for #basic.
Then back to creating more #medieval #runes as a character set. Half way done but I need to revisit some. It's hard to make them accurate with blocks and few options for multiple diagonal lines.
Been rather fun writing hexadecimal letters in runes.
The annual #BASIC 10 Liner contest has returned! Code like it's 1989!
Someone was asking on IRC how to do #BASIC cross development on an #Amstrad CPC; as in: edit your BAS in a PC and easily load it on an Amstrad CPC.
I put together this: https://git.usebox.net/pc-cpc-basic/about/
(my contribution is just the Makefile and the README, all the magic is by iDSK)
Bruce Hoyt and his son Ben Hoyt join the podcast to discuss 70's-era home computing including the MOS KIM-1, The Ohio Scientific Superboard II, and the Ferguson Big Board CP/M machine, #BASIC, assembly language, and #Forth. Bruce's Pentominos solution has been used to test and benchmark Forth systems. #retrocomputing #6502 #z-80
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