The Long Awaited Saga of the For/Next Loop

IN THE CYBER HOLE
https://cyberhole.online

After much updating & rebooting of my server:

https://cyberhole.online/basic/?run=testfor.bas

which is not visually stimulating but it does work. Once I've had lunch I'll see about using it in anger.

See also new phlog in the Cyber Gopher Hole.

I've taken down the Mudhole until I can give it some love/attention/beatings with https, and LostWorld because it doesn't do anything yet.
#cyberhole #basic #retrocomputing

The Long Awaited Saga of the For/Next Loop

IN THE CYBER HOLE
https://cyberhole.online

After much updating & rebooting of my server:

https://cyberhole.online/basic/?run=testfor.bas

which is not visually stimulating but it does work. Once I've had lunch I'll see about using it in anger.

See also new phlog in the Cyber Gopher Hole.

I've taken down the Mudhole until I can give it some love/attention/beatings with https, and LostWorld because it doesn't do anything yet.
#cyberhole #basic #retrocomputing

Working code, but can't publish yet. I'm going *crazy* waiting for things to work.
#cyberhole #basic #retrocomputing

Working code, but can't publish yet. I'm going *crazy* waiting for things to work.
#cyberhole #basic #retrocomputing

Decided I need FOR/NEXT loops, my minimalist scam of:
10 LET i=1
15 ?i
20 INC i
21 IF (i<10) THEN GOTO 15

is OK for a draw loop, but too frustrating for an actual data structure.

So now I'm arms-deep inside the interpreter again, and gotta figure out how I represent everything. Just about have it parsed, but it doesn't run yet.

Soundtrack: https://childrenofthecpu.bandcamp.com/album/back-to-b-a-s-i-c
#basic

Decided I need FOR/NEXT loops, my minimalist scam of:
10 LET i=1
15 ?i
20 INC i
21 IF (i<10) THEN GOTO 15

is OK for a draw loop, but too frustrating for an actual data structure.

So now I'm arms-deep inside the interpreter again, and gotta figure out how I represent everything. Just about have it parsed, but it doesn't run yet.

Soundtrack: https://childrenofthecpu.bandcamp.com/album/back-to-b-a-s-i-c
#basic

look, if i said i had dumped the source code to Telengard, the Commodore 64 version, would anyone even be interested?

#basic #retrocomputing #retrogaming

The experience of Alan Henning @jalanhenning with coding a game in BASIC by applying the lessons from his past as a professional programmer.

https://troypress.com/coding-for-fun-using-lessons-from-work

#basic #GameProgramming #programming

Still just thinkin' about what to do.

- the oats game
- the bag quest game
- permacomputer project documentation and project refresh
- stellaris?
- have a nap?
- video games in assembly for 8 bit consoles
- build my own minimalist 6502 computer
- A CHIP-8 emulator in BASIC
- More things to put in the BASIC archive (archive.basiclang.solarpunk.au)

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #basic

https://www.randomterrain.com/atari-2600-bb-example-code.html

some code examples

#basic #atari #atari2600 #8bit #retrocomputing #retrogaming

I used to think that 10-liner competitions were just for the arcane and esoteric, and I suppose they are--

but after having immersed myself in BASIC for the last few months, I can see the appeal, and it is definitely possible to go from n00b to expert in BASIC rather quickly.

It's in the name, I guess. If you were looking for a quick way to get started in programming, and have some feeling of having finished something early on, BASIC can do that for you.

#retrocomputing #basic #retrogaming

I had a brain wave.

I only had time until after work now to write it out here.

CHIP-8 emulators have been written in BASIC.

How about a fugue on the idea of CHIP-8, in BASIC. A little VM for making games?

#retrocomputing #basic

For teaching programming, don't try to talk to "educators", go samizdat and punk zine. Slip kids illicit BASIC manuals and runtimes.

The Man will always stomp down on anything that empowers people, so don't tell them, just infect the next generation.

https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22People%27s+Computer+Company%22&sort=title
#retrocomputing #basic #pcc

For teaching programming, don't try to talk to "educators", go samizdat and punk zine. Slip kids illicit BASIC manuals and runtimes.

The Man will always stomp down on anything that empowers people, so don't tell them, just infect the next generation.

https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22People%27s+Computer+Company%22&sort=title
#retrocomputing #basic #pcc

I could make a little zine with perhaps four or so type in games that all come in under 4K.

GOBLINS would be an entry, as would CHASE, perhaps a 20 questions game, and a little virtual pet?

#retrocomputing #basic

In the final hours of Goblins Week, I unleash
GOBLINS ADVENTURE

IN THE CYBER HOLE
https://cyberhole.online/basic/?run=goblins.bas

(yeah, that's all there is. More to come.)

Usual release phlog on
gopher://cyberhole.online/

#cyberhole #basic #retrocomputing #gopher #goblinweek #goblin #goblins

In the final hours of Goblins Week, I unleash
GOBLINS ADVENTURE

IN THE CYBER HOLE
https://cyberhole.online/basic/?run=goblins.bas

(yeah, that's all there is. More to come.)

Usual release phlog on
gopher://cyberhole.online/

#cyberhole #basic #retrocomputing #gopher #goblinweek #goblin #goblins

Those who dismiss or deride BASIC don't go beyond the language. Guillaume Chereau points out there's more to BASIC as on early microcomputers it provided a full development environment too, almost an IDE.

I'd say BASIC also supported a REPL-based, exploratory programming style similar to Lisp's.

https://gcher.com/posts/2023-12-24-basic/

#basic #retrocomputing

Do any BASIC dialects have a future that isn't just nostalgia for the early days of microcomputers? #BASIC #programming

Was reading the latest (fairly bad) old adventure on Regna in Blue:
https://bluerenga.blog/2026/01/18/sword-of-raschkil-1981-1983/

And that led to "Adventure in 1K"!
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/10/01/adventure-in-1k-1983/

So I've put it
ON THE CYBER HOLE
https://cyberhole.online/basic/?run=adv1k.bas

I'm sorry, but not really. You can hit ^Z, list to see how it works.

Also that page has links to several other less-useless TRS-80 adventures, which I may look at.

#cyberhole #basic #retrocomputing #interactiveFiction