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Lovely :) The examples remind me of the short programs for the ZX Spectrum published in magazines like Microhobby, which would create visually interesting image
by ggambetta 7y ago
Lovely :) The examples remind me of the short programs for the ZX Spectrum published in magazines like Microhobby, which would create visually interesting images using PLOT, DRAW, and a couple of loops. Come to think about it, that might have been my first contact with Computer Graphics :)
- stevekemp 7y agoMy first introduction to graphics was definitely the type-in-program listed in the back of the (orange) manual I received with my 48k ZX Spectrum. It drew a UK-flag. Here's the source, which gives me a moment of nostalgia: http://boriel.com/wiki/en/index.php/ZX_BASIC:Flag.bas http://boriel.com/wiki/en/index.php/ZX_BASIC:Flag.bas I wrote a simple BASIC interpreter recently, in golang, and hacked in support for outputing PNG images of code. I should see if I can get that sample to run (mostly) unchanged!
- ggambetta 7y agoNice! Some time ago I worked on a ZX BASIC interpreter in Javascript, so it could run on browsers. My idea was that kids these days™ don't have an environment as easily available and immediately gratifying as we did back then, so I wanted to make one! Have you considered doing something similar with yours?
- stevekemp 7y agoI did embed it in a web-server, so that the user can enter BASIC into a <textarea> and have the output rendered by their browser as an image. I called it "visual basic" ;) https://github.com/skx/gobasic/#80-print-visual-basic https://github.com/skx/gobasic/#80-print-visual-basic Just a small example really of embedding, I suspect to make it really useful for new-programmers it'd need a lot of overhaul. When my child gets old enough I'll probably just give them a BBC-emulator, or similar to get started with.