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Post by Carl Gundel on May 22, 2021 22:36:54 GMT -5
What was your first BASIC?
Mine was TRS-80 Level I BASIC. Courtesy of my local Radio Shack.
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Post by jordi on May 23, 2021 4:33:12 GMT -5
Mine was C64 basic. But it is an horrible basic, as most of all was done with peek and poke. I did some simple games, but it gave me curiosity for learning other languages in the future and started my love for computing and electronics.
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Post by pablosl on May 23, 2021 12:57:51 GMT -5
Mine was TI-BASIC and Extended BASIC by Texas Instruments TI99/4A.
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Post by Stefan Pendl on May 23, 2021 14:04:31 GMT -5
Commodore 64 BASIC, so influenced by Microsoft from the beginning  |
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Post by Rod on May 23, 2021 14:34:01 GMT -5
I am older than BASIC. My first computer was analog, home made and pretty pointless. Then digital gates designed to control model trains. Then along came Sinclair and his zx81. Never looked back, the combination of keyboard and screen combined with instant feedback was and still is mesmerising
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Post by Carl Gundel on May 23, 2021 21:21:05 GMT -5
Commodore 64 BASIC, so influenced by Microsoft from the beginning Commodore BASIC is a Microsoft BASIC, probably partly written by Bill Gates himself. |
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Post by Carl Gundel on May 23, 2021 21:22:43 GMT -5
Mine was C64 basic. But it is an horrible basic, as most of all was done with peek and poke. I did some simple games, but it gave me curiosity for learning other languages in the future and started my love for computing and electronics. PEEK and POKE are great because you learn about the hardware when you use them, but I agree that some useful commands for drawing graphics, dealing with sprites, and doing sound, music, and joystick handling would have been very nice. |
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Post by Carl Gundel on May 23, 2021 21:23:40 GMT -5
I am older than BASIC. My first computer was analog, home made and pretty pointless. Then digital gates designed to control model trains. Then along came Sinclair and his zx81. Never looked back, the combination of keyboard and screen combined with instant feedback was and still is mesmerising My first computer was an HP-67 programmable calculator, but one does not program that in BASIC at all.  |
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Post by Stefan Pendl on May 24, 2021 4:46:49 GMT -5
Mine was C64 basic. But it is an horrible basic, as most of all was done with peek and poke. I did some simple games, but it gave me curiosity for learning other languages in the future and started my love for computing and electronics. PEEK and POKE are great because you learn about the hardware when you use them, but I agree that some useful commands for drawing graphics, dealing with sprites, and doing sound, music, and joystick handling would have been very nice. I remember Simon's BASIC for the C64, which had easier commands for those type of things. If I remember correctly, it also had a build-in speech engine.
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Post by Carl Gundel on May 24, 2021 10:27:03 GMT -5
PEEK and POKE are great because you learn about the hardware when you use them, but I agree that some useful commands for drawing graphics, dealing with sprites, and doing sound, music, and joystick handling would have been very nice. I remember Simon's BASIC for the C64, which had easier commands for those type of things. If I remember correctly, it also had a build-in speech engine.
I never tried that. I'm sure it was great. Built in graphics commands are really nice, and much faster than poking circles onto the screen one pixel at a time, but I have noticed that many times the graphics commands in 8-bit BASICs were sometimes much slower than they should have been. I guess floating point calculations for drawing circles on a 6502 w/o a math coprocessor might tend to slow things down. Speaking of speed, I sometimes wonder if Commodore and other 8-bit producers could have made money simply producing clock doubled or tripled versions of their computers with a few carefully designed enhancements that were 99% compatible with existing software titles. Several generations of computer model later you would have a 16MHz C64 with more colors, better sound, and enough power to write arcade games in BASIC. But I guess that's what the Commander X16 project is about. |
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Post by tsh73 on May 24, 2021 11:41:32 GMT -5
We had access to computer class in last school year. Class of same computers with some network to teacher machine, which had some disk storage. It was some french-made computers with Basic buildt-in. I forgot the name  *second-day googling* Ha! Likely this one, Thomson MO5 NR www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=868I remember palette prank we did (remap all 16 available colors to undistinguished shades of red) It had some programmed characters, like ZX Spectrum (it surely wasn't Spectrum I owned some time after) Now I think it should be much better then Spectrum, but then we were young and clueless. I really wonder how we got to the point of programming, without manuals. Surely some lectures were delivered for us - I vaguely remember doing maze searching. |
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Post by Carl Gundel on May 24, 2021 12:52:15 GMT -5
What was your first BASIC? Mine was TRS-80 Level I BASIC. Courtesy of my local Radio Shack. Let's see if I can remember my first few BASICs. 1) TRS-80 Level I BASIC 2) Benton Harbor BASIC 3) MBASIC or BASIC-80 (not sure) 4) Hewlett Packard Time-Shared BASIC 5) Commodore BASIC 6) Applesoft BASIC 7) GW-BASIC 8) Turbo BASIC 9) Psion OPL 10) Power BASIC 11) Liberty BASIC |
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Post by Chris Iverson on May 24, 2021 13:31:36 GMT -5
The built in BASIC dialect on the VTech Precomputer Unlimited/Vtech IT Unlimited.
Though I didn't really do much programming on that, and only really learned to program starting with LB on PC.
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Post by Carl Gundel on May 24, 2021 13:52:18 GMT -5
The built in BASIC dialect on the VTech Precomputer Unlimited/Vtech IT Unlimited. Though I didn't really do much programming on that, and only really learned to program starting with LB on PC. Wow, BASIC on a VTech toy computer!? Cool. |
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Post by tenochtitlanuk on May 24, 2021 16:02:10 GMT -5
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