Anyone want a fun porting project?

Post #440,630 by drook 1/3/22 11:56:41 AM 1/3/22 11:56:41 AM Reply	Anyone want a fun porting project? https://blog.codinghorror.com/updating-the-single-most-influential-book-of-the-basic-era/ ... in 1973, DEC published an anthology, 101 BASIC Computer Games. The book quickly went into a second printing, for a total of 10,000 copies sold. “That was far more books than there were computers around, so people were buying three, four, five of them for each computer.” It went on to be the first computer book to sell a million copies. Quite a legacy. I think we owe it to the world to bring this book up to date using modern, memory safe languages that embody the original spirit of BASIC, and modern programming practices including subroutines. So let's do this. Please join us on GitHub, where we're updating those original 101 BASIC games in memory safe, general purpose scripting languages: Java Python C# VB.NET JavaScript Ruby Delphi / Object Pascal Perl -- Drew
Post #440,634 by Another Scott 1/3/22 9:15:57 PM 1/3/22 9:15:57 PM Reply	AdminiScott could probably do this in his sleep. He must still have the OO "shapes" stuff around here somewhere... DOS Batch Java perl Python Ruby SQL PL1 Foxbase semaphore abacus etc. Cheers, Scott.
Post #440,637 by malraux 1/4/22 10:39:31 AM 1/4/22 10:39:31 AM Reply	Possibly. Life's too short to code for free at this point though. 🙃 Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #440,638 by drook 1/4/22 4:54:33 PM 1/4/22 4:55:22 PM Reply	"Never write code you're not being paid for" The battle cry of every programming/development manager who ever caught their team writing their own bug tracker. -- Drew Edited by drook Jan. 4, 2022, 04:55:22 PM EST Expand All History
Post #440,636 by a6l6e6x 1/3/22 10:57:06 PM 1/3/22 10:57:06 PM Reply	"so people were buying three, four, five of them for each computer" No. That's when Radio Shack TRS-80 computer became available with Basic. Wiki: Radio Shack sold over 10,000 TRS-80s in its first one and a half months of sales, 55,000 in its first year, and over 200,000 during the product's lifetime; I bought one in 1979. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov

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