Jan 15, 2006
Welcome to Show 027! This week's Topic: The Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (or BASIC, for short...)
Topics and links discussed in the podcast...
More Commodore news - here's an interview with Bil
Herd on the Commodore Plus/4 World
website!
Check out the Vintage
Computing and Gaming website for "adventures in collecting,
playing, and hacking vintage computing and gaming devices."
If you're in the US and interested in products from Individual
Computers (e.g., the Retro Replay), then have a look at the
C64 Reloaded Store.
As always, it's all there on Wikipedia - articles on the BASIC
programming language, Dartmouth BASIC,
and the Dartmouth
Timesharing System!
Want to program in BASIC on modern day systems? Have a look
at FreeBASIC, DarkBASIC, BlitzBASIC, or Visual BASIC.NET
2005.
Be sure to send any comments, questions or feedback to retrobits@gmail.com.
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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.
Thanks for listening!
- Earl
Back in the day, seems like you could find whole books full of programs, on everything from games written in BASIC (Star Trek was my fav), to sample databases for inventory control and so on. Most of the computing magazines had sample programs in BASIC - I still have a few of these around.
At work, I wrote QBASIC compiler programs for a lot of stand-alone systems, database/label programs back in the day. Recently ported over an old version of NASCOM BASIC for my Z-80 project computer - this sure makes it easier to try different things with external I/O control without having to resort to assembly language every time. No storage, but still very handy.
Programming in BASIC is also pretty fun, too!
Cheers!
Joel