basic Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/basic/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Fri, 05 Aug 2022 18:49:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.7 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png basic Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/basic/ 32 32 146320098 Web-based Applesoft BASIC and Apple Merlin Editors now available… http://paleotronic.com/2022/08/06/web-based-applesoft-basic-and-apple-merlin-editors-now-available/ http://paleotronic.com/2022/08/06/web-based-applesoft-basic-and-apple-merlin-editors-now-available/#respond Fri, 05 Aug 2022 18:49:53 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=22527 We’ve created two new web-based interfaces for our cyanIIde Apple II webassembly emulator! The first allows you to load and edit Applesoft BASIC programs using a CodeMirror-based editor with syntax highlighting and colon line separation. [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2022/08/06/web-based-applesoft-basic-and-apple-merlin-editors-now-available/feed/ 0 22527 A New ZX Spectrum Christmas Demo! http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/04/a-new-zx-spectrum-christmas-demo/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/04/a-new-zx-spectrum-christmas-demo/#respond Wed, 04 Dec 2019 01:23:13 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=9435 In the best of home computer traditions; here at Paleotronic we’re celebrating Christmas with a quick delve into Sinclair BASIC and a festive type in listing. It’s time to dust off the trusty 48k ZX [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/04/a-new-zx-spectrum-christmas-demo/feed/ 0 9435 Tut-Tut – a new game for the ZX Spectrum http://paleotronic.com/2019/11/05/tut-tut-a-new-game-for-the-zx-spectrum/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/11/05/tut-tut-a-new-game-for-the-zx-spectrum/#respond Tue, 05 Nov 2019 06:58:16 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=8693 (Editor’s Note: David has also created a ZX81 version of Tut-Tut which is available from his blog: https://www.zx81keyboardadventure.com/2019/10/zx81-game-tut-tut.html) It’s coming to the end of 1921’s digging season in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. Your excavations have [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/11/05/tut-tut-a-new-game-for-the-zx-spectrum/feed/ 0 8693 There’s a 3D Flying Dragon inside microM8’s [Applesoft] microBASIC Interpreter! http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/12/theres-a-3d-flying-dragon-inside-microm8s-applesoft-microbasic-interpreter/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/12/theres-a-3d-flying-dragon-inside-microm8s-applesoft-microbasic-interpreter/#respond Tue, 12 Mar 2019 01:49:48 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3602 It made a sort of logical sense that if our microM8 Apple II emulator rendered in 3D (it does) and it had its own Applesoft-compatible BASIC interpreter (it does), we should make a 3D graphics [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/12/theres-a-3d-flying-dragon-inside-microm8s-applesoft-microbasic-interpreter/feed/ 0 3602 Tetris for Applesoft BASIC http://paleotronic.com/2018/06/26/tetris-for-applesoft-basic/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/06/26/tetris-for-applesoft-basic/#respond Tue, 26 Jun 2018 04:08:35 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=863 What do Steve Wozniak and George H.W. Bush have in common? They’ve both been seriously into Tetris! But who can blame them? The object of the game (as if you didn’t know) is to complete [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/06/26/tetris-for-applesoft-basic/feed/ 0 863 Department Store BASIC: Learning to code via programmatic vandalism in the 1980s http://paleotronic.com/2018/06/19/department-store-basic-learning-to-code-via-programmatic-vandalism-in-the-1980s/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/06/19/department-store-basic-learning-to-code-via-programmatic-vandalism-in-the-1980s/#respond Tue, 19 Jun 2018 04:20:59 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=776 Before MS-DOS, Microsoft’s biggest product was arguably BASIC. Variants of Microsoft BASIC shipped in most 1980s home computers, including the Commodore 64, Tandy Color Computer and the Apple II (as Applesoft BASIC). Standing for “Beginners [more...]

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