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Scripting In Commodore BASIC For Windows & Linux
SomeoneGotMyNick writes "Someone more nostalgic than I am, and with a lot of time on their hands, had created a scripting language based on Commodore BASIC for Mac OS X. They recently finished a version that works on Windows and Linux. You can pass the text of a BASIC program as a parameter to the program. I found it odd that it took 1.8 MB of source code to compile to an interpreter that used to fit in 8K of ROM space. If this ever becomes popular, perhaps we'll see Obfuscated CBM BASIC contests." In a simliar vein, in the comments someone points out what is essentially an open source AmigaOS Classic.
When will somebody port Radar Rat Race to Windows or Linux?
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10 FORA=1TO300
20 PRINT"YAY!"
30 NEXT
RUN
I had to get my dad to program the dungeon text adventures, so it wouldn't spoil everything for me. There's just something about typing everything that could happen to you that ruins the game.
I have an old book on how to build your own telescope from the 1980's that included how to hook up a C64 and use a joystick to control the telescope's movements all written in C64 Basic. I remember porting it to QBasic circa 1994/5 and using it for a telescope I had to account for planetary motion for photography. (Back before every telescope came with such features).
That would almost be fun...wow I really am a geek....*shudders* I'm going back to my cave now.
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Now my 25 year old C64 BASIC programs can run under Linux, OSX, or Windows.
If only my 1541 floppies didn't suffer from bit rot and I loaned most of my collection to friends who didn't return them and somehow lost it after they moved.
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Just as we do our best to get .vbs files locked down someone comes up with a new scripting language just waiting for exploitation.
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I remember coding a nuissance program in 6510 assembler on my C-64 that sat in the background and when a key was pressed it had a tiny chance not to echo it to the screen or to echo it twice. After installing it on several classroom computers off the old 1541 floppy it drove some students batty, they thought they had sticky keys. This was before real viruses :)
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I used to have a book with type-in adventures where they obfuscated all the strings by shifting them one character precisely to counter that problem.
Oh and typing in five pages of numbers representing binary code was fun. There were actually checksums printed at the end of each line and a little program showed you the checksums in the corner of the screen after entering each line of code.
Man I feel old. You young whippersnappers don't know how good you have it with your iPhones and your WiFi.
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Don't soften his boner dude. He might not be aware that some TVs only displayed black & white. Leave him to his fantasy.