A repository of “BASIC Computer Games” code in modern languages

Re:A repository of “BASIC Computer Games” code in modern lan... by davidrupp on Monday July 31, 2023 @03:06PM (#36947323)

I learned a lot about programming by taking a book like this that was written specifically for the TRS-80 (which I did not own), and translating the programs to what I owned instead, which was a Sinclair ZX80. This primarily involved translating between different flavors of BASIC, but also deciding what I could arrange to leave out and still have an interesting game, due to the relatively constrained resources of my machine. Excellent experience.

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Re:A repository of “BASIC Computer Games” code in modern lan... by martincmartin on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:46PM (#36948545)

I learned a lot about programming by taking this book and, since I didn't own a computer, figuring out how the code could produce the example listing. That's where I learned things like, to swap the values of two variables, you copy one to a third variable temporarily. I learned a ton of patterns like that.

Eventually I got my VIC-20, then an Apple ][, then an Amiga.

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