When I started on BASIC - it was originally on an Apple II, then - at
the same time - I moved over (literally - in the same small physics/chem
labs storage room) was a Commodore PET 1200. I also, during lunch breaks
- got access to the Storage area of the Home Ec. dept. and dabbled doing
BASIC on a TRS-80. The class I was taking - in BASIC - in Fall of 1980 -
was a single semester class - and for the final project I attempted to
make Space Invaders. I learned to do these creation of graphical sprites
- via Vectors - that are then translated between Binary then into Hex -
and plugged into the Apple Monitor mode. I only got as far as creating
the Tank, getting it to shoot missiles up, creating the Army of Aliens,
getting them all moving left-right & down - and also controlling the
motion of the Tank via a Game Paddle. Kinda bummed I never did finish
the game..
-K-
On 2/22/2014 4:50 AM, Laurie Alvey wrote:
Me too -VIC20 then Commodore 64.
Laurie
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From: Ted Roche <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, 21 February 2014, 18:40
Subject: 32-bit BASIC
Gene:
BASIC was my first computer language, mid-'70s, PDP-4 and a Commodore
VIC-20. Used it for many years before I went pro, writing BASIC on WANG
2200 microcomputers.
You may want to try FreeBASIC, which claims high compatibility and the
ability to compile 32-bit executables: http://www.freebasic.net/
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Gene Wirchenko <[email protected]> wrote:
At 00:51 2014-02-21, Dave Crozier <[email protected]> wrote:
So what are these "utilities" that are so indespensible?
They are utilities that I wrote for myself. They are written in a
16-bit version of Microsoft BASIC. They work.
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