Tag: basic language

July is BASIC Month on Reddit's Retrobattlestations

July 2, 2016 0 Comments on July is BASIC Month on Reddit's Retrobattlestations
Posted in Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, Commodore News, Homebrew Games News, MS-DOS, MSX, News, PC, Programming, Retro Computing History, Retro News, Sinclair News, Texas TI-99/4A, TRS-80, ZX Spectrum

Subreddit RetroBattlestations is promoting another BASIC Month. This time around, the idea is to run the BASIC program Terraspin, a Turtle graphics type program created for the contest. The contestants will have to type in the program on any retro computer that runs BASIC and post take a picture of it running. The rules state very clearly that screen only or emulators are…

BASIC 10Liners 2015 Contest Final Results

April 16, 2015 0 Comments on BASIC 10Liners 2015 Contest Final Results
Posted in Atari News, News, Programming

We reported back in January the BASIC 10Liners 2015 Contest, and at that time we thought we would have plenty of time to participate, right? Wrong! The contest has ended last April 11th, and the results are already online. In the PUR category (max. 120 characters per logical line, abbreviations are allowed) these are the top 10: 1. Carrera 3D2….