I'm pleased to announce that #qbsh has a new release! Version 1.1.0 is out with significant improvements in the shell pipe handling for interactive CLI programs like vim.
Talking about #retrocomputing things... Here a program I wrote on September 2015 with my first computer. That Commodore Vic-20 is now 40 years old, has 3.5 Kb of RAM and last time I tried it was still working :-) #creativeCoding#tumblr#petscii#basic#asciiart#8bit
Spot the differences! The white one had some keys that were not working, so I swapped it with the other one. This way the new owner to be can actually use it. The other will just have more to be fixed.
It's time to let this baby go. Box, cart and manuals still looking good too. Not feeling too bad about it, still have another one in a bit worse condition. Let's give it a clean and put it on the marketplace. And no, it's not clicky. :famicom:
They say if you whisper the hashtag #Perl three times into a mirror, I show up in your pull requests to tell you that for loop would really be much nicer as a map
NMH BASIC (http://t3x.org/nmhbasic/) is a tiny BASIC interpreter for the 8086 that I wrote in the mid-1990's. It runs in 12K bytes and includes a minesweeper game that runs on a TTY. Of course a 12K interpreter was an anachronism in the 90's, but it still was a fun project. #retrocomputing, #basic, #compilers, #dos, #8086
When Darthmouth created #BASIC 60 years ago, it was to enable non-geeks—social science college students—to do simple data analysis on the school's mainframe.
But by the 1980s, almost every BASIC programmer was a teen geek, who used it like an OS shell and an editor for the 6502 or the Z80 assembly.
In the September 1984 issue of the "Personal Computer World" magazine a #BASIC converter chart has been published as a poster. I was searching for that for years. Now some people from the #facebook BASIC group managed to find a proper scan an re-made it:
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.