Graffiti, a #BASIC program from #yourcomputer magazine that lets you write in any of 8 directions.
Get its TZX file here:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/27013/ZX-Spectrum/Video_Graffiti
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I wish #FreeBASIC had an interpreter mode. There is just something to he said about being able to write a shabang line and just code.
808 Lines of BBC BASIC and a Dream: Arm Architecture turns 40.
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.
!["The fact that you can write the whole Arm description in 808 lines tells you how simple it was."
And today's Arm CPUs?
Some good-natured heckling from the audience put the figure as the output of 200 engineers over two years. Quite a bit more than the 808 lines [Furber] recalled for the effort more than 40 years ago. Another wag in the audience suggested that without comments, the line count might be even less, to which [Furber] laughed and said: "Well, it was written in BBC BASIC, which is a self-commenting language."
👾It is difficult to overstate the significance of the Arm architecture and its impact on the modern world.👾](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/114/489/030/621/253/549/original/348e8fdf188ea1a8.jpeg "\"The fact that you can write the whole Arm description in 808 lines tells you how simple it was.\"
And today's Arm CPUs?
Some good-natured heckling from the audience put the figure as the output of 200 engineers over two years. Quite a bit more than the 808 lines [Furber] recalled for the effort more than 40 years ago. Another wag in the audience suggested that without comments, the line count might be even less, to which [Furber] laughed and said: \"Well, it was written in BBC BASIC, which is a self-commenting language.\"
👾It is difficult to overstate the significance of the Arm architecture and its impact on the modern world.👾")
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BBC Micro signed by Arm co-designer Sophie Wilson and her co-boffins at the Centre For Computing History, Cambridge.
The computer, a familiar sight in classrooms throughout the UK and plugged into the televisions of well-heeled parents, allowed the attachment of a second processor. There was a unit with an additional 6502 processor, another contained a Z80 processor. And this one could accept Acorn's new RISC chip, freshly stamped out by VLSI.
At 3pm on April 26, 1985, having been plugged into the test board attached to the BBC Micro, power was introduced and the processor worked. Sophie Wilson, author of BBC BASIC and one of the brains behind the Arm chip, copied an Arm version of the BASIC interpreter and tried a command. Everything checked out.
"It did not say, 'Hello world, I am Arm,'" laughed Wilson at the CCH event. "I think that's one of Hermann's [Hermann Hauser, who set up Acorn Computer with Chris Curry] apocryphal stories! But it did say Pi."](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/114/489/031/652/680/458/original/d466d53ccc4d9986.jpeg "[ImageSource: Richard Speed]
BBC Micro signed by Arm co-designer Sophie Wilson and her co-boffins at the Centre For Computing History, Cambridge.
The computer, a familiar sight in classrooms throughout the UK and plugged into the televisions of well-heeled parents, allowed the attachment of a second processor. There was a unit with an additional 6502 processor, another contained a Z80 processor. And this one could accept Acorn's new RISC chip, freshly stamped out by VLSI.
At 3pm on April 26, 1985, having been plugged into the test board attached to the BBC Micro, power was introduced and the processor worked. Sophie Wilson, author of BBC BASIC and one of the brains behind the Arm chip, copied an Arm version of the BASIC interpreter and tried a command. Everything checked out.
\"It did not say, 'Hello world, I am Arm,'\" laughed Wilson at the CCH event. \"I think that's one of Hermann's [Hermann Hauser, who set up Acorn Computer with Chris Curry] apocryphal stories! But it did say Pi.\"")
![[ImageSource: Computinghistory.org.uk]
A ten-person team had spent 18 months working on the low-power RISC chip, and it had pretty much worked the first time. That processor, which was first fired up 40 years ago, was a glimpse into the future. It would take bigger companies many years to start seeing things the same way as that early team.
The Arm exhibit is now a permanent fixture at Cambridge's Centre for Computing History, and is well worth a visit. The museum also has a range of computers, along with a smattering of vintage gaming consoles, with which visitors can play.
<https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/>](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/114/489/031/768/866/746/original/edd6800775bcb063.jpeg "[ImageSource: Computinghistory.org.uk]
A ten-person team had spent 18 months working on the low-power RISC chip, and it had pretty much worked the first time. That processor, which was first fired up 40 years ago, was a glimpse into the future. It would take bigger companies many years to start seeing things the same way as that early team.
The Arm exhibit is now a permanent fixture at Cambridge's Centre for Computing History, and is well worth a visit. The museum also has a range of computers, along with a smattering of vintage gaming consoles, with which visitors can play.
<https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/>")
Any FreeBASIC fans here?
#basic : performing the office of a base in a salt
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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.
John Sobanski · My Childhood Apple II Computer Programs (1986)My Dad ran the first computer lab at Division Avenue High School in Levittown, NY. The lab held a bank of Apple II computers. He bought...
Little post on my blog about tinkering with my #picocalc #basic #handheld https://concretedog.blogspot.com/2025/05/picocalc-having-fun-with-picomite.html
concretedog.blogspot.comPicocalc, Having fun with PicoMite! So I am a sucker for portable tech. In fact as well as a heap of old Palm PDA's I own things like a Pocketchip and indeed every portable s...
You control a cargo hooper in this #BASIC game from #yourcomputer magazine.
Download it here:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/393/ZX-Spectrum/Balloon_Hopper
Super Star Trek 1973 BASIC game is currently being adapted for #AtariST computers #atari #retrogames #BASIC
Another super interesting #BASIC -like programming environment.
This one looks interesting. Pity it's SourceForge based, I get skeeved out downloading anything from there, ESPECIALLY for Windows given their awful track record.
SourceForgemicro(A) InterpreterDownload micro(A) Interpreter for free. micro(A) is a modern and minimal general purpose open source programming language.
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Also, the booklet that started it for me:
https://archive.org/details/TRS80ModelIPreliminaryUsersManual/mode/2up
(actually I had just the summary card, not this whole manual)
#basic #retrocomputing #trs80
It's 61 years of BASIC today!
https://mdhughes.tech/2021/05/03/basic-at-57/
And here's an informative summary of all the BASICs of 1982:
https://archive.org/details/Basic_Handbook_2nd_Edition_1981_CompuSoft_Publishing/mode/2up
#basic #retrocomputing
A Basic Poem
Binary divisions of corrugated containers,
added to by the duck and weave of boxers,
systematizes the mathematics of higher-dimension
intelligences that fantasize about someday
climbing down the dimensional ladder and
becoming human.
Let's take a break
from our self centered race...
Take off those blinders
that serve to narrow our view
and take in the beauty
that exists on the periphery...
The glorious panorama of ALL humanity
with ALL the potential possibilities...
Now see the frayed edges of our quilt...
Seek out and savor every imperfection...
Find those souls in need of a boost...
Kindness provided so very easily
if we access our own memories
when we were feeling lonely
and in desperate need
of #basic human inclusion
#MastoPrompt #basic
@stevencudahy @poetry
#poetry #poem
10 To the end flip glossy pages
20 Past the too-dear game reviews
30 Eighties screen time thirst assuages
40 Print-out-programmes there peruse
50
60 REM and DIM and GOTO written
70 Finger peck, illiterate scribe
80 ENVELOPE, PRINT "HELLO WORLD!" THEN
90 Digital delight imbibe
100
110 NEXT. We pause with trepidation
120 END. We wonder what's in store
130 RUN. The high anticipation
140 Can't escape SYNTAX ERROR
Replied to Steven Cudahy
basics
the people
basic needs
basic rights
human rights
food
freedom
health life
the tyrants
basic instincts
basic wants
inhuman desires
inhuman urges
greed
money
power
death
needs aren’t all basic
hearts trace them to unknown paths
so far underground
#haiku #writing #poetry #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #ShortPoems #poems
The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 30 April 2025 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.
If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.
Some of My History of Hypertext
https://mdhughes.tech/2025/04/22/some-of-my-history-of-hypertext/
So in 1979, young Digital Mark is shown a computer, a TRS-80 Model I, by 4th-grade teacher. Other kids play Snake, I hit break and type LIST, seeing BASIC code, because I've been reading the instruction card. "I can read and learn this!" Nothing else now matters to Mark.
That summer, I take an
Mark writes · Some of My History of Hypertext - Mark writes
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In a valiant attempt to rocket us back to the dino-days of #computing, some wizard decided to resurrect #BASIC programs with the enthusiasm of a history teacher on Red Bull. 
Turns out, typing in code from 1973 is still as riveting as watching paint dry, but hey, at least you'll learn how to program your VCR! 
https://github.com/maurymarkowitz/101-BASIC-Computer-Games #Revival #Retro #Programming #Nostalgia #VCR #HackerNews #ngated
GitHubGitHub - maurymarkowitz/101-BASIC-Computer-Games: Type-in programs from the original 101 BASIC Computer Games, in their original DEC and Dartmouth dialects. No, this is *not* the same as BASIC Computer Games.Type-in programs from the original 101 BASIC Computer Games, in their original DEC and Dartmouth dialects. No, this is *not* the same as BASIC Computer Games. - maurymarkowitz/101-BASIC-Computer-Games