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µP<p>Jim Adams "The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> Family Tree" (2024):</p><p><a href="https://shrtn.escalar.pt/gf2A" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">shrtn.escalar.pt/gf2A</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Tim Holyoake<p>A summer project: Monster Chase, part 1</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a></p><p><a href="https://z80.timholyoake.uk/a-summer-project-monster-chase-part-1/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">z80.timholyoake.uk/a-summer-pr</span><span class="invisible">oject-monster-chase-part-1/</span></a></p>
µP<p>A 1977 issue of "Personal Computing" to be read: </p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputing19770102" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/PersonalCo</span><span class="invisible">mputing19770102</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaghettiCode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaghettiCode</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a></p>
µP<p>One popular myth of the invention of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> (de-mystified by Thomas E. Kurtz in Mark J. Lorenzo's book "GOSUB without RETURN"):</p>
Stewart Russell<p>TIL that BBC BASIC prints strings to file backwards</p><p><a href="https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=31157" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopi</span><span class="invisible">c.php?t=31157</span></a></p><p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/BBCMicro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBCMicro</span></a></p>
Paolo Amoroso<p>"Stimulating Simulations: Ten unique programs in BASIC for the computer hobbyist" by William Engel, published in 1977, was in the great tradition of project based books of the early personal computing era. It presented ideas and BASIC code for simulation programs in domains from games to space flight and business.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/Stimulating_Simulations_1977_C_William_Engel/mode/2up?view=theater" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/Stimulatin</span><span class="invisible">g_Simulations_1977_C_William_Engel/mode/2up?view=theater</span></a></p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a></p>
Muro deGrizeco<p>It took a couple months, but the Clockwork PicoCalc did arrive in California finally.</p><p>Minimal handheld computer. Raspberry Pi Pico CPU. Stock, has no OS, boots to BASIC interpreter. 264kB.</p><p>Turn clock back to early 1980s, see what could have happened.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/PicoCalc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PicoCalc</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BASIC</span></a></p>
µP<p>Looking for a $1 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RISC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RISC</span></a> computer that runs <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a>?</p><p>Here you are: <a href="https://www.olimex.com/Products/Retro-Computers/RVPC/open-source-hardware" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">olimex.com/Products/Retro-Comp</span><span class="invisible">uters/RVPC/open-source-hardware</span></a></p>
root42<p>I spotted a 10PRINT wallpaper in LGR‘s latest video. I think I want that!<br><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commodore</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/10print" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>10print</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a></p>
Karsten Schmidt<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://appdot.net/@mdhughes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mdhughes</span></a></span> This old little East German book from 1988 covers similar topics (and much more[1]) was one of the most life-changing books for me during my teenage years:</p><p>Computer und Kunst<br><a href="https://archive.org/details/computerundkunst0000volz" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/computerun</span><span class="invisible">dkunst0000volz</span></a></p><p>[1] Other Topics also included information/music theory, cognition, Markov chains, fractals, text analysis, poetry/music generation...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/GenerativeArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/AlgorithmicArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlgorithmicArt</span></a> # <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Graphics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Graphics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a></p>
Stewart Russell<p>Running BBC BASIC for ARM on a BBC Micro equipped with a PiTubeDirect and Raspberry Pi Zero is almost 5000× faster than on the original 2 MHz 6502</p><p>(these are real beeb screenshots, taken using RGBtoHDMI)</p><p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/BBCMicro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBCMicro</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/ARM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ARM</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a></p>
Crazy Cat Lady<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fairdinkum.one/@John" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>John</span></a></span> it is sad that DJT can’t get things right, can’t investigate his accusations properly and has changed discussions in the White House into ambush attacks on people from other countries. <br>Can we all please, stop groveling to the idiot and let him sit in his own sewerage for a bit. Stop talking to him stop sending things to him stop including him. He mentally can’t handle being in charge of a piss up in a brewery let alone running a country. <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/AUSpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AUSpol</span></a> <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> human rights.</p>
µP<p>A short essay on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VideoGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VideoGame</span></a> console <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> extensions from the 1970s to the 1990s:</p><p><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391914929_Let's_play_BASIC_BASIC_dialects_for_video_game_consoles" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">researchgate.net/publication/3</span><span class="invisible">91914929_Let's_play_BASIC_BASIC_dialects_for_video_game_consoles</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AtariVCS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtariVCS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a></p>
Ignacio PG (N.Parsons-PB48K)<p>Aún me quedan por teclear unos pocos listados en BASIC de la revista alemana "Happy Computer". Únicamente del especial Sinclair 1/1985, así que iré tecleándolos pausadamente durante estos días. Una vez copiados y testeados, los añadiré al archivo de Spectrum Computing.</p><p>Ver dicho ejemplar en Internet Archive: <a href="https://archive.org/details/happycomputer-magazine-special-1985-01/mode/1up" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/happycompu</span><span class="invisible">ter-magazine-special-1985-01/mode/1up</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ZXSpectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZXSpectrum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Preservaci%C3%B3n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Preservación</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/listados" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>listados</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/typeins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>typeins</span></a></p>
Juan F. Ramírez<p>Graffiti, a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> program from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/yourcomputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>yourcomputer</span></a> magazine that lets you write in any of 8 directions.</p><p>Get its TZX file here:<br><a href="https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/27013/ZX-Spectrum/Video_Graffiti" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/</span><span class="invisible">27013/ZX-Spectrum/Video_Graffiti</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zxspectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zxspectrum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a></p>
Profoundly Nerdy<p>I wish <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/FreeBASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBASIC</span></a> had an interpreter mode. There is just something to he said about being able to write a shabang line and just code. </p><p> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a></p>
Olly 👾<p>808 Lines of BBC BASIC and a Dream: Arm Architecture turns 40.</p><p>It is 40 years since the first Arm processor was powered up, and the UK's Centre for Computing History [CCH] celebrated in style, with speakers to mark the event, hardware on show and a countdown to the anniversary.</p><p><a href="https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/74205/The-40th-Anniversary-of-the-ARM-1-Chip-Saturday-26th-April-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">computinghistory.org.uk/det/74</span><span class="invisible">205/The-40th-Anniversary-of-the-ARM-1-Chip-Saturday-26th-April-2025/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/arm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arm</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/40th" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>40th</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/anniversary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anniversary</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/it" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>it</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/engineer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>engineer</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a></p>
Profoundly Nerdy<p>Any FreeBASIC fans here?</p><p><a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/freebasic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freebasic</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/bsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bsd</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a></p>
WordofTheHour<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> : performing the office of a base in a salt</p><p>- French: basique</p><p>- German: grundlegend</p><p>- Italian: basico</p><p>- Portuguese: básico</p><p>- Spanish: básico, básica</p><p>------------</p><p>Join our new Discord Server for language learners @ <a href="https://wordofthehour.org/discord" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wordofthehour.org/discord</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Paolo Amoroso<p>John Sobanski revisits the Apple II programs he wrote in BASIC four decades ago as a 9-year-old. They're typical of the code many of us wrote back then when learning to program, to experiment with and combine language features to get interesting results.</p><p><a href="https://john.soban.ski/apple-basic.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">john.soban.ski/apple-basic.htm</span><span class="invisible">l</span></a></p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/AppleII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AppleII</span></a></p>
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