View Full Version : Remember When Games were BASIC?
GENESISNES
11-17-2002, 02:10 AM
Can you write BASIC programs on a C64, C128, or Amiga?
theaveng
11-17-2002, 07:29 AM
Of course. I made a Star Trek game using the C=128's BASIC 7.0
consoledatabase
11-17-2002, 07:30 AM
yes
kainemaxwell
11-17-2002, 10:29 AM
Wow does this bring back memories of Compute magazines...
THXII38
11-17-2002, 07:12 PM
Yes! I got my first computer in 1980.
Here is a one line program! It's a number guessing game;
1 LET X=INT(RND*999):FOR G=1 TO 99:INPUT "NR.=";A:PRINT "><"((X>A)+1);A,G:NEXT G
Raedon
11-17-2002, 07:22 PM
what BASIC system does that run on THX? Apple or C64? or some old TRS80 maybe?
THXII38
11-17-2002, 07:32 PM
Actually that's for a Sinclair SPECTRUM.
I have emulators of most of the 8 bit consoles and computers....
I also own most of the 8 bit computers.
I loved the c 64 loading screen on Vice City :)
Recently I have been collecting Amstrad's (they use CP/M instead of DOS).
My fave version of BASIC is BBC structured BASIC.
The most retro item I have owned (sold it on eBay - wished I had kept it!) was a 1972 programming manual 'My Computer Likes Me When I Speak in BASIC'.
The oldest thing I currently program is a very early scientific Texas Instruments calculatro, which can run rudimentary games. I got the listings for them out of some old 'Calculators & Computers' magazines.