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No donkey.bas? :)
by mlukaszek 8y ago
No donkey.bas? :)
- indentit 8y agoI guess Gorillas and Nibbles didn't come with that book from the article, but with MS-DOS, so to have it with the book would have been a waste of space as they were already present on most systems
- pvg 8y agoThe book was originally published before there was an MS-DOS or IBM PCs.
- cr0sh 8y agoThat book was somewhat "old" when I first encountered it as a kid in the 1980s. Most of the code in it was first created for minicomputers in the 1970s, probably running some form of Dartmouth BASIC.
- pvg 8y agoCreated maybe but they were published in a sort generic MS BASIC with some tweaking required to get them to run on different machine implementations. https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=i12 https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=i...
- genzoman 8y agoThe first "programming" I ever did was when we had computer day in third day, I bet a kid I could get to a higher level of Nibbles than he could. I read a BASIC book from the library, found the script and changed the START_LEVEL variable from 1 to 100. 20 some years later, I write code for a living.