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@stefanhoeltgen
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Transversalist for Computer Archaeology, Media Science, Game Science, Medial Humanities, Toy Computing – more: http://about.me/hoeltgen

#Games #MediaStudies #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #BASIC #ComputerHistory #MediaArchaeology #ComputerArchaeology

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Show threadµP3h ago
Someone from the Facebook BASIC group had an explanation on offer: In a sort of dialogue, Dartmouth adopted changes that GE had introduced, including its later dialects.
µP4h ago
#BASIC history has to be rewritten! It was not Dartmouth BASIC the 5th General Electric published at first as their own dialect. The company started in 1965 to publish BASIC (at least the manuals) and changed the language even in this year, as you can read from a listing published in the GE BASIC manual from september 1966: GOSUB and RETURN (running in a late 1965 program) have not been implemented until #Dartmouth BASIC 4th Edition (1967/1968).
µP1d ago
"I think a nerd is someone who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd, therefore, is someone who uses a computer in order to use a computer." (Douglas Adams)
µP5d ago

@quattro_bit just pointed me to an #8bit computer mag I did not know yet: "The Portable Companion" - for the #Osborne-1. The mag seems to be preserved at #archiveOrg - here is the cover illustration of the 1st issue.

https://archive.org/details/theportablecompanion

#PaperWare #RetroComputing #BASIC

µP5d ago

How about a permutation of 4KB ROM content to generate #ramdom #game code for the #AtariVCS with the help of #AI ...?

https://bbenchoff.github.io/pages/FiniteAtari.html

#RetroGaming

µP6d ago

My Osborne-1 now has its #game disks back and I can play #WizardOfOz (a #BASIC game), Munchkin (a #PacMan clone) and #chess with it.

#CP/M #Z80 #RetroGaming

µPJun 11

Today, the copies of the second edition of the first volume of the textbook series "Media Technology Knowledge" that I edited have finally been delivered:

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111036540/html

#MediaArchaeology #Logic #Archaeology #InformationTheory #Memory

µPJun 11

A #BASIC #OneLiner #demo for the #C64: Plasma Effects and #ChipTunes included:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTqWw62zllY

#RetroComputing #Commodore64 #DemoScene

µPJun 9

Now, this is one helpful online tool to convert #C64 prg files not only into #PETSCII text files but also apply the usual PETSCII macros to them. (And vice-versa you can copy&paste text files and save the as .PRG!)

https://stigc.dk/c64/basic/convert/

#RetroComputing #BASIC

µPJun 8

An #arcade #game in #BASIC for your #BBCMicro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm-ZpJDHWnI

#RetroComputing