Subj : Re: Basic Computer Games
To : Divarin
From : Dr. What
Date : Fri Oct 01 2021 08:42 am
-=> Divarin wrote to Basschestra <=-
> what computer should I use for book Basic computer Games.
> C64, CPET, VIC-20
Di> Is there a specific book you're reading or you just want to dink around
Di> in Basic?
I assume the book "BASIC Computer Games" by Ahl.
There were a few variations of the book for the TRS-80, C64, etc. But if it's
just the basic (he, he) one, then any BASIC will do since the games were
intended to be used for (shall we call it) Common BASIC, which just about every
computer at that time supported.
Di> However the basic is kind of crap actually. Almost anything you want
Di> to do with the hardware requires a complex series of peeks and pokes
Di> whereas other systems (Apple II, TI-99/4a (extended basic), even
Di> TRS-80) had basic commands like graphics, plot, sound, joystick, etc...
Ya, that had to do with many things, but mostly cost. So add graphic/sound
commands to BASIC on the C-64, for example, they'd have to go back to Microsoft
and get a new license, which they didn't want to do for cost purposes. Or have
their programmers spent a great deal of time, which they didn't want to do,
again for cost purposes.
The programs in "BASIC Computer Games" will run on just about any
implementation of BASIC from the Altair through GW-BASIC on the IBM-PC.
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