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I only had one game for my VIC-20, the pack-in game, called BASIC. I never beat it, but I got a few levels in!
by bitwize 8mo ago
I only had one game for my VIC-20, the pack-in game, called BASIC. I never beat it, but I got a few levels in!
- x______________ 8mo agoYou sure on the name? I'm having a hard time finding a reference, Wiki amongst a few other searches. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_VIC-20_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_VIC-20_games
- ido 8mo agoBASIC was a programming language, it was a joke.
- speed_spread 8mo agoA joke that got a lot of us high paying jobs later on.
- x______________ 8mo agoThanks for validating my initial assumptions.. Was hoping for something more than hello, world :/
- rbanffy 8mo agoBASIC for 8-bit computers was an interesting language. It was limited in many aspects, but taught a whole generation about how computers actually worked. Apart from non-native data types (strings and floats), it was quite close to the machine - GOTO and GOSUB map very neatly to (in 6502) JMP and JSR.
- mghackerlady 8mo agoI'm younger than the vic-20 by a few decades but this comment made me feel old, jeez
- mikestew 8mo agoSome mistakenly documented it as an application, and not a game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIC-20#Applications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIC-20#Applications (First sentence.)
- muziq 8mo agoI was lucky enough to be able to mail £5 notes to Llamasoft in Mount Pleasant, and receive freshly reproduced tapes from Jeff Minter, or more likely his mum or dad.. The sheer joy of getting home from school and there being a Jiffy bag with Yaks latest game was like nothing else.. From GridRunner, LaserZone, HellGate, MetaGalactic Llama Battle At The Edge Of Time..