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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space  ·  activity timestamp last week

BASIC Code is a new retrocomputing blog that posts refactored and adapted "40-year-old type-in listings from 80s books and microcomputing magazines".

https://basic-code.bearblog.dev

#basic #retrocomputing #blogs

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Joan Albright
@Lironah@mstdn.games replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@amoroso You just transported me all the way back to 7th grade. (I was a nerd even then. When asked by my classmates how I added sound to my term project, I said, "I read the book.")

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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@Lironah What machine did you use back then?

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Joan Albright
@Lironah@mstdn.games replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@amoroso Oh man, I couldn't even tell you. That was like, '92?

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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@Lironah Possibly a DOS or Windows PC?

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Joan Albright
@Lironah@mstdn.games replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@amoroso It was before I first used Windows, so definitely DOS. My one at home was also DOS.

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Mlep
@Mlep@retro.pizza replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@amoroso I love this! My first coding experience was from copying some 1k lines out of Byte magazine into an Atari 800

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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@Mlep The posts provide some good notes and commentary too.

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Lieven
@Lgo@hostux.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@amoroso Reminds me of a group effort between my brothers, sisters and me to copy the complete 1900 lines of source code of Space Invaders in TI-99/4A Basic from some early Belgian personal computer magazine (or from the Bell Telephone pc hobby club mag, can't remember), must have been around 1984. Ah ... good times.

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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@Lgo And it was even tougher to type in assembler opcodes.

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Lieven
@Lgo@hostux.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@amoroso Oh my, I was too young for understanding the concept of high and lower language programming languages then. And now I’m too old 😉

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