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48K eh? Ahh rich kids... :) What blew my mind shortly after getting my hands on a ZX Spectrum was to find out that most computers of the time (Dragon, Oric, Ap
by Jare 13y ago
48K eh? Ahh rich kids... :)
What blew my mind shortly after getting my hands on a ZX Spectrum was to find out that most computers of the time (Dragon, Oric, Apple, Commodore, etc) had significantly different versions of BASIC.
The next thing that blew my mind was to learn that editing computer programs could be done full screen instead of line by line and that, in fact, most programming environments did not use line numbers except as visual aids.
- gadders 13y agoDragon 32, with the basic interpreter written by Microsoft. Helped me a lot when I had my final year university project in VB 1.0.
- dmoo 13y agoFirst basic used was on the oric-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oric#Oric-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oric#Oric-1 Also had the joy of VB 1.0 for work http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic#History
- fit2rule 13y agoGreat to hear of another Oric-1 user! :) Did you know its still getting software written for it? (Please tell me you didn't already know about http://forum.defence-force.org http://forum.defence-force.org and http://oric.org http://oric.org .. in case you didn't, and you loved your Oric-1 like many of us do, then you're in for a great surprise..)
- peteri 13y agoMost of the 6502 Microsoft basic varieties can be built from the same source code http://www.pagetable.com/?p=46 http://www.pagetable.com/?p=46 has lots of the gory details