@vidak @50htz @akkartik Lua's hard to use for type-ins because it's block-structured, not easy to keep focus in, AND it has fussy, awful syntax. Did you type : or ::? There's way too many ways to do similar things in it.

#Lua is what a C++ developer thinks is "easy enough for a level designer".

#BASIC has the virtues of being trivial to read, write, and only has two data types, plus arrays of those. No classes, no function pointers. If you add named labels or functions, it's "modern" enough.

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Retro Computing Nostalgia meet Open Source Software and Hardware with AgonLight and Neo6502, the incredible evolution of modern Retro computer projects https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/retro-computing-nostalgia-meet-open-source-software-and-hardware/ #z80 #w65c02 #retrocomputing #retrogaming #pascal #cpm #forth #basic #cc65

Retro Computing Nostalgia meet Open Source Software and Hardware with AgonLight and Neo6502, the incredible evolution of modern Retro computer projects https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/retro-computing-nostalgia-meet-open-source-software-and-hardware/ #z80 #w65c02 #retrocomputing #retrogaming #pascal #cpm #forth #basic #cc65

Oh shite, I was wrong.

Chris has a #CommodorePET at home and a thumping big hard drive. Wait for it, Chris is writing #software in Commodore #BASIC, an “expert system” for ‘House Planning’. Expected time to completion?

Three months to write the code; Three months to populate the (database) system to make it useful.

Hack Chris, Hack

#hacker / #applications

Extremely decent ASCIIART benchmark result on @tomjennings 's Friendly eZ80 CP/M computer running BASIC-80 5.21 : 11.3 seconds

Another benchmark suggests that it's running BASIC 47× faster than a C64

#RetroComputing#BASIC #cpm

a BASIC listing of a crude Mandelbrot set plotter, which is then run to display the set with increasing hexadecimal digits plotting higher values
a BASIC listing of a crude Mandelbrot set plotter, which is then run to display the set with increasing hexadecimal digits plotting higher values