Someone from the Facebook BASIC group had an explanation on offer: In a sort of dialogue, Dartmouth adopted changes that GE had introduced, including its later dialects.
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#BASIC history has to be rewritten! It was not Dartmouth BASIC the 5th General Electric published at first as their own dialect. The company started in 1965 to publish BASIC (at least the manuals) and changed the language even in this year, as you can read from a listing published in the GE BASIC manual from september 1966: GOSUB and RETURN (running in a late 1965 program) have not been implemented until #Dartmouth BASIC 4th Edition (1967/1968).
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@quattro_bit just pointed me to an #8bit computer mag I did not know yet: "The Portable Companion" - for the #Osborne-1. The mag seems to be preserved at #archiveOrg - here is the cover illustration of the 1st issue.
@quattro_bit Thank you, too! I didn't know "The Portable Comagnion".
How about a permutation of 4KB ROM content to generate #ramdom #game code for the #AtariVCS with the help of #AI ...?
My Osborne-1 now has its #game disks back and I can play #WizardOfOz (a #BASIC game), Munchkin (a #PacMan clone) and #chess with it.
Today, the copies of the second edition of the first volume of the textbook series "Media Technology Knowledge" that I edited have finally been delivered:
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111036540/html
#MediaArchaeology #Logic #Archaeology #InformationTheory #Memory
A #BASIC #OneLiner #demo for the #C64: Plasma Effects and #ChipTunes included:
Now, this is one helpful online tool to convert #C64 prg files not only into #PETSCII text files but also apply the usual PETSCII macros to them. (And vice-versa you can copy&paste text files and save the as .PRG!)
An #arcade #game in #BASIC for your #BBCMicro
"Demands of the Game Labs Network to universities: Better conditions for research, teaching, and study with digital #games" - a position paper I wrote with some German colleagues:
"AtarinoPico" - an #Atari #8bit hardware #emulator at the size of a stamp:
https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Retrospektive-Thema-214694/News/Atari-Heimcomputer-1474474/
An interview with Rolf-Dieter Klein and his #1980s TV show about how to build your own #HomeComputer
Just published:
My chapter on "The Universe als a Cellular Automaton" for the collection "", edited by Harald Zaun:
Today I received a fully functional #NEC PC 6001 (1981) #8Bit #HomeComputer from Japan, including several manuals and a German greeting card.
A 1977 issue of "Personal Computing" to be read:
@root42 There is indeed a line reaching from Algol via BASIC to Python: For the 1st connection, read Kurtz&Kemenys early interviews on the creation of BASIC; for the 2nd you'll find hints in interviews with Guido van Rossum - and also in the syntax of both languages.
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