Tag: basic
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Nostalgia, Music, and Computers
It turns out that I get nostalgic about technology in the same way as I get nostalgic about music. Here's some things that take me right back to being nine, eleven, thirteen and fifteen years old.
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The Scroll Art Museum
The Scroll Art Museum demonstrates a surprisingly cool way of generating animation using ASCII art in a scroll buffer and... look, it's just cool, okay? And it inspired me to dust off a copy of QBASIC for a moment, too...
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Werewolves and Wanderer [Video]
Video version of my blog post about the video game that had the biggest impact on my life: Werewolves and Wanderer.
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Werewolves and Wanderer
A single text-based adventure game I found in a book in the 1980s taught me more about programming than anything else I experienced in that decade.
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The Ruby Story
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By 2005, Ruby had become more popular, but it was still not a mainstream programming language. That changed with the release of Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails was the “killer app” for Ruby, and it did more than any other project to popularize Ruby. After the release of Ruby on Rails, interest in Ruby … -
Learning BASIC Like It's 1983
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Now, it’s Saturday morning and you’re eager to try out what you’ve learned. One of the first things the manual teaches you how to do is change the colors on the display. You follow the instructions, pressing CTRL-9 to enter reverse type mode and then holding down the space bar to create long lines. You … -
Lunar Lander
Back in 1997 Dan made a "Lunar Lander" game in Turbo Pascal. Twenty years on, he's re-implemented it in Javascript.