Wintermute_BBSApr 10, 2024

I just discovered this little gem in my collection and am very tempted to put it into use on my #Harlequin128K #ZXSpectrum clone sometime.

It is a unified BASIC dialect called BASICODE 2 developed by the dutch national radio service in 1984. It contains BASICODE 2 interpeters for almost all common microcomputer systems of that era as well as BASICODE 2 example programs and games.

I suppose it was part of a series of tutorial shows on how to program. But I'm not 100% sure as I'm german, not dutch.

#NOS
#Basicode2
#BASIC
#RetroComputing
#RetroProgramming
#Netherlands

Show threadstirz ✅Apr 10, 2024
@Wintermute_BBS I recall an article about #BASICODE for the #commodore #C64 published Back in the 80s. There were such things as BASICODE radio broadcasts which you could record to tape and then load into your homecomputer. What completely blew my mind were thin plastic records (as in "record player") which were added as supplements to magazines - required you to connect the record player to the tape port. I guess that's peak geekdom.
Show threadWintermute_BBSApr 10, 2024

@stirz I remember "Channel Videodat" which was a commercial TV service in Germany in the early 1990s.

As for those "wobbly" flexible records, I knew them from music magazines but never saw any in a computer magazine. Nice to learn those also existed!

Show threadstirz ✅
@Wintermute_BBS Channel #Videodat is also some oddity I have come across. I have fond memories of ads for the decoders - right next to some #C64 cartridges to decode D2-mac satellite video or Swiss pay TV "Teleclub".
Apr 10, 2024 at 5:53pmWeb
Show threadWintermute_BBSApr 10, 2024
@stirz ah, "Teleclub" - didn't people find a way to decode this via software?!
Show threadstirz ✅Apr 10, 2024
@Wintermute_BBS Using a bare C64? I doubt it. It was some board for the User-Port, I think...
Show threadWintermute_BBSApr 10, 2024
@stirz no not with a C64