BASIC Computer Games
May 14

BASIC Computer Games

Table of Contents: BASIC Computer Games: Someone scanned in all the pages from the classic book “BASIC Computer Games” from 1978. I damn-near memorized this book back in the 7th grade. I programmed half the games, even though most of the time I could get them saved to tape so I lost them and had to re-type them very time I wanted to play. This was also the origin of my “copy and hack” coding strategy — I extended many of this games far beyond the author’s original intentions.

by Deane   May 14, 2004 8:51 AM   |

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by Bob,   May 14, 2004 10:22 AM  

Holy crap! I had that book, too. Programmed them (about as many as you did) on my Tandy Color Computer (CoCo!) and saved them to cassette tape via the CoCo's cassette tape recorder peripheral. Man, to me, that was HIGH TECH stuff then. Took ten minutes to read a program off the tape and back into memory, but hey, that's what the TV was for--just flip the splitter switch to TV mode and watch the tube while your program loads...

by Eric,   June 2, 2006 10:25 PM  

Excellent - I have the 1980 TRS-80 edition. It was the best $6.98 I ever invested.

by malek256,   September 26, 2006 2:02 PM  

That is how I taught myself to code as well - by reverse engineering the listings. I didn't have a computer or the money to buy any books on coding.

But BASIC lent itself readily to understanding when you were a keen grade 7 kid!

And when the CoCo arrived from my parents to the family for Christmas...like you Bob, I hacked away at it with that book!

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