David Singleton wrote a toy BASIC compiler in Go which translates from a subset of TinyBASIC to Go source code.

https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2021-01-31-i-wrote-a-compiler/

81Zombies is now officially a thing! It's possibly the best turn-based-desk-building game that's been released for ZX81 all day, so feel free to check it out! https://hundstrasse.itch.io/81zombies

I was playing around with the Mega65 emulator. It's the first BASIC I've typewritten since the 80s and it was fun. Maybe I'll buy one of these modern retrocomputing like machines

The listing is the Monster Chase Program from the book Stimulating Simulations by C. William Engel.

Writing an article for @rpimag about Picomite... It's pretty amazing that I have a really nicely featured boot to basic machine running with just a standard Pico H... with a cheapo SD card reader attached it has 16GB of storage! It's also sort of not oldschool somehow, it's a very feature rich #basic! #retrocomputing

In the summer of 2008, I was at a small agency doing video work. When our "webmaster" left, my boss asked if I could "make heads or tails of this #PHP".

Smug from years of writing #BASIC on a TI-83+, I decided to give it a shot and ended up changing my career trajectory.

Happy 30th, PHP! You're not the only language, but you're the one I always come back to

Got the base #RC2014 up and running, and now I'm trying to remember how to program in #BASIC. And search engines are no help for resources. Anybody have any interesting places you go for BASIC programs and help writing programs?

A summer project: Monster Chase, part 1

#BASIC #RetroComputing #RetroGaming

https://z80.timholyoake.uk/a-summer-project-monster-chase-part-1/

One popular myth of the invention of #BASIC (de-mystified by Thomas E. Kurtz in Mark J. Lorenzo's book "GOSUB without RETURN"):

TIL that BBC BASIC prints strings to file backwards

https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=31157

"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.

https://archive.org/details/Stimulating_Simulations_1977_C_William_Engel/mode/2up?view=theater

Looking for a $1 #RISC computer that runs #BASIC?

Here you are: https://www.olimex.com/Products/Retro-Computers/RVPC/open-source-hardware

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

(these are real beeb screenshots, taken using RGBtoHDMI)

Bytemaniacos #ZXSpectrum #BASIC 2025 competition: bytemaniacos.com/web/?page_id... Hover over "Concursos" to see entries from the previous editions #retrodev #retrocomputing #retrogaming