The object of the BASIC 10 Liner Contest is to create a complete computer game in just 10 lines of BASIC. One of the first programming languages that my peers and I used was BASIC, which stands for ...
It wasn’t easy, but [D. Scott Williamson] succeeded in implementing Jacks or Better Video Poker in 10 lines of BASIC, complete with flashing light and sound! Each round, one places a bet then plays a ...
Microsoft has released 6,955 lines of BASIC assembly code from 1976 Bill Gates and Ric Weiland adapted BASIC for the MOS 6502 Commodore licensed Microsoft BASIC in 1977 for $25,000 worldwide Nearly ...
Surely BASIC is properly obsolete by now, right? Perhaps not. In addition to inspiring a large part of home computing today, BASIC is still very much alive today, even outside of retro computing.
Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...
In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...
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