Category: BASIC

We can probably agree that it is not really a new year in the retro computing community without the BASIC 10-Liner contest. Well, get the fireworks ready because the 2021 edition of the contest is ready to receive the smallest and smartest BASIC programs one can conceive. Again the rules haven’t changed much since the last edition. BASIC games can…

Table of contents Part 1 – Hello World! Part 2 – Graphics Part 3 – More Variables, Memory and Pointers (ugh!) Part 4 – Using VSCode and Action! with syntax highlighting Part 5 – Modularization and Distributing your program Welcome to the first part of this programming series where we will learn (or die trying!) to learn Action!, a high-performance…

Chloe Corp has finalized the keyboard design for the Chloe 280SE, a Z80-compatible FPGA computer. And in an effort to broaden its appeal, it has gone for a UNIX ten-keyless layout. Because the 280SE is such a niche machine, a fully custom keyboard was never going to be a cost effective solution. So instead the starting point was an off-the-shelf…

Another Basic 10Liner contest is over and the winners were announced this weekend, with Atari and Commodore programs dominating the first places, but also showing a strong presence of MSX participants. With NOMAN 2020 cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, an online streaming event was used to announce the scores of all 159 programs that were running for the four…

YouTube decided to show me a video by 8-Bit Show And Tell. It is a BASIC driving game called “10 PRINT RACER” for the Commodore PET. For those that don’t know, “10 PRINT” is a one line Commodore BASIC program that generates a maze by randomly printing slash and backslash PETASCII characters. 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 There is…