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BASIC Computer Games
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#2From 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9026063
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#3The interesting podcast "They Create Worlds" recently had an episode on this topic, it's worth a listen: https://tcwpodcast.podbean.com/e/computer-game-basics/
Growing up I had a Commodore 64 and for some reason came into possession of another of David Ahl's books ("More Computer Games" I think it was called). It contained Eliza as one of the listings and it was a program that fascinated me so much I ended up creating a ton of clones, in horribly nested BASIC (though, to be fair, is there any other kind?)
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#4Such nostalgia. That’s how I got into programming.
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#5This is how I got into debugging :)
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#6The game lunar explains itself:
> the on board computer has crashed (it was made by xerox) so you have to land your lunar module manually
Back when games could just make jokes about existing companies without getting into trouble.
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#7No donkey.bas? :)
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#8We had a book or two of Apple II BASIC programs in the school library. They had just enough Apple-specific BASIC in them that only the simpler, text-basd games were usuable at home on my PC with QBASIC.
For some reason nobody ever thought to put those books in the computer lab which was full of various Apple II's.
I wish there would have been more explaination of the code, it was pretty much a couple hundred lines of LET X1=15 IF L2 < 1 GOSUB 12100
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#9Such nostalgia. That’s how I got into programming.
Likewise.... this book was instrumental in my career trajectory, a real blast from the past.
Similarly, GWBasic, Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, etc.
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#10The interesting podcast "They Create Worlds" recently had an episode on this topic, it's worth a listen: https://tcwpodcast.podbean.com/e/computer-game-basics/ Growing up I had a Commodore 64 and for some reason came into possession of another of David Ahl's books ("More Computer Games" I think it was called). It contained Eliza as one of the listings and it was a program that fascinated me so much I ended up creatin…
Horribly nested BASIC is just what you did before you did it better.