europlus, 10 months ago

@profoundlynerdy @nGFX AppleSoft BASIC Star Trek on the text screen. #AppleIIForever

fnordius, 10 months ago

@profoundlynerdy I still have a soft spot for "Hunt the Wumpus".

profoundlynerdy, 10 months ago

@fnordius I'm not familiar with that one.

fnordius, 10 months ago

@profoundlynerdy I still have the code somewhere, from "101 BASIC Computer Games", edited by Dave Ahl

profoundlynerdy, 10 months ago

@fnordius The #BASIC source code has been posted online, with minor necessary bug fixes.

This repo has ports to many popular memory safe languages, including #Python, #Perl, and #Lua among others.

The point is to help others learn to code using these easy-to-read references. It also helps the coders sharpen their skills, because porting code between dissimilar languages is not as easy as it may seem.

cohomologyisFUN, 10 months ago

@profoundlynerdy @fnordius did you mean to link to this?

https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games

profoundlynerdy, 10 months ago

@cohomologyisFUN @fnordius 🤦‍♂️ yes.

Sorry about that.

mjgardner, 10 months ago

@fnordius @profoundlynerdy

cyningstan, 10 months ago

@fnordius @profoundlynerdy I'd go with Hunt the Wumpus too. I implemented six games in Tiny BASIC a few years ago, and Hunt the Wumpus is the one I go back and play by choice.

profoundlynerdy, 10 months ago

@cyningstan @fnordius Are encounters randomized?

cyningstan, 10 months ago

@profoundlynerdy @fnordius Yes, although in the original spec Tiny BASIC version you need to give it a seed (no random number generator in the original Tiny BASIC spec).