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Ignacio PG (N.Parsons-PB48K)Terminado de teclear el juego "Pac-Man", listado en la revista portuguesa Micro Sistemas nº 67. Probado que no he cometido errores durante el copiado desde el sábado. Al archivo de Spectrum Computing que va.Ver su ficha: <a href="https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/42477/ZX-Spectrum/Pac-Man" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/42477/ZX-Spectrum/Pac-Man</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ZXSpectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ZXSpectrum</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Programas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Programas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BASIC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TypeIns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TypeIns</a>

River City Random ☑️I wanted to learn <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a> again by picking up <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/commodore64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#commodore64</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BASIC</a>, in an attempt to recreate some of the projects of my youth. But watching Youtubers like <a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/8bitshowandtell.bsky.social" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@8bitshowandtell.bsky.social</a> do <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> makes me realize that if you want to do anything more complicated than basic text and string manipulation, you've got to get good with the PEEKs and POKEs. And at that point you're essentially programming in #6502 <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/assembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#assembly</a> code, except with more hex-to-decimal conversion.

River City Random ☑️I've decided to learn <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a> after completely dropping it when computers dropped <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BASIC</a> in ROM. After recommendations from friends and YouTube to study <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/javascript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#javascript</a>, <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#python</a>, <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lisp</a>, <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/golang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#golang</a>, <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/csharp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#csharp</a>, and <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/turbopascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#turbopascal</a>, I decided to make <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/Lua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lua</a> my first "modern" language. It looks a lot like Python but for some reason the syntax seems more intuitive to me. Also, I want to develop games for <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/pico8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pico8</a> so it's a good match. I hope I can keep this enthusiasm up long enough to program a whole game.

Dr. Juande Santander-VelaSpeaking of my previous toot [1] about old Usborne books [2], I have just learned from the book How to Make Computer-Controlled Robots [3] that you could easily simulateON value GOSUB line1, line2, [line3…]withGOSUB line1*(value=1)+ line2*(value=2)[+ line3*(value=1)…](See logical page 37 — printed as 35 — on [3])I guess the same works for ON GOTO…[1]: <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@juandesant/115233865561825677" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mathstodon.xyz/@juandesant/115233865561825677</a> [2]: <a href="https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books</a> [3]: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxv0SsvibDMTZ2tQMmpyOWtsRFk/view?usp=drivesdk&resourcekey=0-zt3ZcOMMA30T_LJlUEzoDQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxv0SsvibDMTZ2tQMmpyOWtsRFk/view?usp=drivesdk&resourcekey=0-zt3ZcOMMA30T_LJlUEzoDQ</a><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/usborne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#usborne</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BASIC</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ZXSpectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ZXSpectrum</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ZXSpectrumBASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ZXSpectrumBASIC</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/StructuredBASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StructuredBASIC</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/OnGoSub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnGoSub</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/OnGoto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnGoto</a>

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🎃 💀Long gone are the days when you would "THINK! THINK!" about a program before preparing it, and shee-it, does that show.<a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#basic</a>

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🎃 💀<a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#basic</a>

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🎃 💀This is interesting, a 1973 (!) BASIC computer programming tutorial for minicomputers & time-sharing mainframes, lightly updated to TRS-80 branding in 1977. The little user cartoons are awesome. Look how proud he is of his program that doesn't even print "BUTTS" repeatedly!<a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#basic</a>

µPMy (German) review for <a href="https://mstdn.social/@jesperjuul" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@jesperjuul</a>'s book "Too Much Fun" on the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Commodore64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Commodore64</a> has just been released on <a href="https://openbiblio.social/@hsozkult" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@hsozkult</a>: <a href="http://txt3.de/hsk2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://txt3.de/hsk2</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/C64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#C64</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BASIC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroGaming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PaperWare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PaperWare</a>

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🎃 💀The haiku & text generators are edging into what's now bad LLM territory. His haiku doesn't do 5-7-5, that's left as an exercise for the reader.And a variant version of ELIZA, based on Weizenbaum's work, not the many-generations-removed David Ahl version.I might tear that apart some and put it in my Basic Games in Scheme program, tho I already have another one in my old CHICKEN menu program, keep meaning to update that. <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#basic</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/gofai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gofai</a>

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🎃 💀The book starts with rehash of chess/checkers stuff, without even a good weighted lookahead algorithm (admittedly very slow on 8-bits), but later starts to get into more interesting Prolog-type territory: <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#basic</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/gofai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gofai</a>

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🎃 💀Experiments in Artificial Intelligence for Small Computers by John Krutch <a href="https://archive.org/details/krutch-experiments_in_artificial_intelligence_for_small_computers-1981" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/krutch-experiments_in_artificial_intelligence_for_small_computers-1981</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/gofai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gofai</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#basic</a>

Antonia Livia<a href="https://floss.social/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#basic</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/picomite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#picomite</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/rp2350" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rp2350</a> porting the one button jewel research project/game from <a href="https://hcommons.social/@chludens" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@chludens</a> over to Picomite BASIC on an rp2350. I'm using my own deck which has a 640 x 480 display but it may work on a PicoCalc with tweaks. <a href="https://github.com/AntoniaLivia79/Picomite-LineJewels" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/AntoniaLivia79/Picomite-LineJewels</a> if anyone wants to try

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🎃 💀<a href="https://social.solarpunk.au/users/vidak" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@vidak</a> Noticed this in Bit of Basic (cool cover & cartoons, not otherwise too interesting), which leads to:"You just bought a personal what?" <a href="https://archive.org/details/TRS-80_Programming_In_Style_1980_Radio_Shack/page/n237/mode/2up" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/TRS-80_Programming_In_Style_1980_Radio_Shack/page/n237/mode/2up</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#basic</a>

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🎃 💀<a href="https://typo.social/@pixelambacht" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@pixelambacht</a> SICP <a href="https://archive.org/details/sicp_20211010" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/sicp_20211010</a> which is the Deep Magic.or BASIC Computer Games <a href="https://archive.org/details/basic-computer-games-microcomputer-edition_202207" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/basic-computer-games-microcomputer-edition_202207</a> which was the best tutor to programming, ever.or Stimulating Simulations <a href="https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-stimulating-simulations-atari-version/page/n5/mode/2up" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-stimulating-simulations-atari-version/page/n5/mode/2up</a> which was one of my first computer books, and to this day, I've got a variant of Lost Treasure up on <a href="https://cyberhole.online/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cyberhole.online/</a><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#basic</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/scheme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scheme</a>

µPRené Bauer from <a href="https://hcommons.social/@chludens" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@chludens</a> and colleagues wrote a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BASIC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/game" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#game</a> which should run on all common <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/homecomputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#homecomputer</a> platforms:<a href="https://research.swissdigitization.ch/?p=1260" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://research.swissdigitization.ch/?p=1260</a>I will try and test/extend it for more systems and find out a routine that auto-detects on which platform it runs.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroGaming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GameStudies</a>

Osna.FMA recent calculation by comparison portal Verivox indicates that the electricity allowance within Germany's citizen's allowance (Bürgergeld) system may remain i... <a href="https://news.osna.fm/?p=15200" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://news.osna.fm/?p=15200</a> | <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#basic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#benefits</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/costs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#costs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#energy</a>

µPJust published: The chapter from Melanie Fritsch and me about the historical ways to (de)scribe <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/videogame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#videogame</a> music and sounds. I contributed a part about sound generation and description wiht <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BASIC</a> for the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Atari</a> #8-Bit <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HomeComputers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HomeComputers</a> <a href="https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503618654-1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503618654-1</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroGaming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ludomusicology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ludomusicology</a>

Stewart20 years ago this week I created a music video for “Jed’s Other Poem” by Grandaddy. It went viral—and was the world’s first open-source music video. Here’s the full story: <a href="https://stewartsmith.io/work/jed" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stewartsmith.io/work/jed</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Music</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MusicVideo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MusicVideo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Grandaddy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Grandaddy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BASIC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a>

It's FOSSMicrosoft has open sourced 6502 BASIC!<a href="https://news.itsfoss.com/basic-6502-open-source/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://news.itsfoss.com/basic-6502-open-source/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#basic</a>

WordofTheHour<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#basic</a> : performing the office of a base in a salt- French: basique- German: grundlegend- Italian: basico- Portuguese: básico- Spanish: básico, básica------------Join our new Discord Server for language learners @ <a href="https://wordofthehour.org/discord" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://wordofthehour.org/discord</a>

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