Show threadDigital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 👽11h ago

More BASIC toys

IN THE CYBER HOLE
https://cyberhole.online/basic/

Awari had some really annoying code, but it plays a good game of it, I had a hell of a time beating it ONCE.

Banner makes nice big banners on the line printer! Also makes the most awful sound possible, making a new printer sound is on my TODO list, just mute your computer when it says.

Also a couple more bug fixes in Mystic Dungeon
https://cyberhole.online/dungeon/

And much more to come!

#cyberhole #basic #retrocomputing

N-gated Hacker News11h ago
🚀✨ Ah, the Byte Magazine Archive, because nothing says cutting-edge like a digital museum of 40-year-old tech ramblings. Now you too can revisit the glory days when computers were the size of your living room and coding meant sacrificing your social life in pursuit of the perfect *BASIC* program. 📚🤖
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BYTE MAGAZINE: Early computer publication

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Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 👽13h ago

Porting BASIC programs, this is why I hate operator precedence:
INT(F(I)/6^(7-C)+.1)
WTF.

So if I test with F(I)=10, C=3, Chipmunk BASIC says:
?(10/6^(7-3)+.1)
0.107716
Maybe that's right?

Rewrite for TinyBasicWeb as
?(10/(6^(7-3))+0.1)
0.10771604938271606

In Scheme, it's the bluntly obvious:
(+ (/ 10 (expt 6 (- 7 3))) 0.1)
0.10771604938271606

MATHEMATICIANS: NOT EVEN ONCE.
#retrocomputing #basic

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_19h ago

writing my own Tiny BASIC is starting to make a lot more sense.

i have a lot to share, but i am not yet ready, i feel like once the keystone goes in, in my understanding, i will be able to share a lot of what has been going on.

#retrocomputing #basic #dev #permacomputing

Jan v/d Broek1d ago

You'll never know when you need this again.

#AtariST #basic

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Reconstructed SC62015 Opcode Reference For Sharp Pocket Computers https://hackaday.com/2026/03/26/reconstructed-sc62015-opcode-reference-for-sharp-pocket-computers/
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Reconstructed SC62015 Opcode Reference For Sharp Pocket Computers

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