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BASIC Computer Games
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#12Also:
https://archive.org/details/Whattodoafteryouhitreturn/page/n...
With my personal favorite BASIC game: Star Traders
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#13all those gotos could cause some serious harm
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#14No donkey.bas? :)
I guess Gorillas and Nibbles didn't come with that book from the article, but with MS-DOS, so to have it with the book would have been a waste of space as they were already present on most systems
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#15I remember young me spending hours on a VIC-20 version of animal.bas ("Computer guesses animals and learns new ones from you"). Given enough time and training input the computer could answer any question put to it! It helped open my eyes to the magic of computation and still gives me a bit of a tingle when I think about it.
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#16Are there any books of this kind for modern languages?
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#17Brings back fond memories. That was the book that got me started programming. I didn't even have a computer at the time but loved reading about the games and trying to understand the code by going through it in my head.
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#18Like others have posted, my childhood included a lot of typing in BASIC programs from books and magazines. What I remember most is staying up late one night when I was ten years old to type in the text adventure game from the back of "Basic Fun with Adventure Games" [1] on my TRS-80 MC-10 with 4K RAM. Before I could finish typing it in, I was shocked to get "?OM ERROR" -- out of memory. My first ever experience with running out of resources. :) I knew I was going to need a better computer...
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Adventure-Games-Susan-Lipscomb/...
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#19Can we fix the title? It should be capitalized as BASIC, the programming language, an acronym for Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
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#20those were the days!!!