Bandit says Sherbie #Gangwere, his father, was on a seven-person team that had moved to the “San Jose Bay Area” and wrote the CALL/360 timesharing #BASIC for the #IBM 360, which ran under OS/360, “for Buck Rogers of IBM [...] for a fixed-price, 10 month contract”. #history
on 02026-09-10#Microsoft has open-sourced Microsoft #BASIC for the #6502. #retrocomputing
on 02025-09-03#PDF #documentation for #HP "IBASIC", instrument #BASIC, to run on your 8712ET/ES or 8714ET/ES RF network analyzer. #electronics
on 02025-08-27#PDF of David #Ahl’s #BASIC #games, “the first computer book to sell more than a million copies.[1]”, hosted on the Internet Archive, which is not Annarchive
on 02025-07-23Michie’s matchbox learning #AI applied to Hexapawn in David #Ahl’s #BASIC games book.
on 02025-07-23the #history of why the #Macintosh didn’t have a decent #BASIC programming environment: Bill Gates bought MacBasic from #Apple for a dollar and killed it.
on 02025-07-20Scan of the July 01980 issue of Recreational Computing with the Wizard’s #Castle type-in #BASIC. #retrocomputing #games
on 02024-11-19#CPM “FOG Library disk FOG-CPM.066” #retrocomputing #games collected by the First Osborne Group, mostly in #BASIC
on 02024-11-19in 01980 the Panasonic "HHC" (handheld computer) designed by Friends-Amis had 4K of RAM and supported #BASIC and #Forth with a 26-character one-line LCD display and a shitty QWERTY keyboard, MSRP US$500 (equivalent to US$1800 today) #history
on 02024-08-25Poikilos’s #parsing problem with #BASIC and #LALR parser generators
on 02024-08-25David #Ahl places everything he’s ever written, including #BASIC #games, in the public domain!
on 02024-05-21#PDF of David #Ahl’s #BASIC #games, “the first computer book to sell more than a million copies.[1]”, hosted on Annarchive, which is not Anna’s Archive
on 02024-05-21#BASIC #games included "HAMURABI", a resource management game
on 02024-05-21discussion of the BBC #BASIC #3D #raytracer #small-is-beautiful #graphics
on 02024-04-15Explanation and movie of the #3D #graphics #raytracer in 10 lines of #BASIC (in the family of the BBC BASIC one, but for an Atari). #small-is-beautiful
on 02024-04-15a version of BBC #BASIC for SDL 2, supporting an in-browser interface
on 02024-01-17BBC #BASIC #graphics #raytracer in 8 lines of code, 448 bytes, with #emulation. 10 REMĀĘĆĞ$Č*Ēĉ!ăě-ĕ'ď 20 MODE1:VDU5 30 FORN=8TO247:FORM=0TO319 40 X=0:Y=-.1:Z=3:U=(M-159.5)/160:V=(N-127.5)/160:W=1/SQR(U*U+V*V+1):U=U*W:V=V*W:I=SGNU:G=1 50 E=X-I:F=Y-I:P=U*E+V*F-W*Z:D=P*P-E*E-F*F-Z*Z+1:IFD>0T=-P-SQRD:IFT>0X=X+T*U:Y=Y+T*V:Z=Z-T*W:E=X-I:F=Y-I:G=Z:P=2*(U*E+V*F-W*G):U=U-P*E:V=V-P*F:W=W+P*G:I=-I:GOTO50 60 IFV<0P=(Y+2)/V:V=-V*((INT(X-U*P)+INT(Z-W*P)AND1)/2+.3)+.2 70 GCOL0,3-(48*SQRV+?(PAGE+5+M MOD4+N MOD4*4)/3)DIV16 80 PLOT69,4*M,4*N:NEXT,
BBC #BASIC #graphics #raytracer in half a kilobyte, though I think the line numbers are maybe missing #small-is-beautiful
on 02024-01-17"MMBASIC" is MBASIC-compatible #BASIC for a #microcontroller, but requiring 94KiB of Flash and 16KiB RAM.
on 02024-01-12