Episódio 162 – BASIC.BAS – Parte B
https://retropolis.com.br/2025/04/16/episodio-162-parte-b/
#Podcast #AcornSystemBASIC #Amiga #AMOS #amstrad #arm #AtariSTBASIC #AtomBASIC #BAS #BASIC #BASIC68 #BASIC69 #BASICA #BBCBASIC #CARealizer #Commodore #copyleft #CPC #DarkBASIC #DB2 #Dijkstra #gwbasic #IBMBASIC #LibreOffice #LinguagemDeProgramao #LocomotiveBasic #MallardBASIC #MICROBASIC #microsoft #MSX #MSXBASIC #Picocalc #podcast #QB64 #qbasic #QuickBASIC #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #s
TracerBlender v1.1.0 released! This tool for Blender to create scenes for the MSX BASIC ray tracer now provides support to let tracer.bas render directly to a true color image file, with custom resolution. You can actually render 4K backgrounds in BASIC!
And instead of dying of old age while waiting for your MSX to complete this task, let your modern PC do the work, using GW-BASIC on bare metal or VM, for a massive speed boost!
Old school coding
#pcbasic #gwbasic #basic #programming #coding
#LLaMA 3 local-run #AI is pretty doggone good. Downloaded a 120B parameter Q6 model (this is ridiculous by consumer standards), and asked it to write a simple #GWBASIC program. I love to test AI on ancient programming languages. It wrote the simple program and it ran perfectly without edits! My PC did use a LOT of #solar energy, and 105 gigs of RAM + 24 gigs of VRAM 😁 NOW I WANT MORE 🤣
New on the blog: I picked out a few bits of the old DOS BASIC programming experience and have will be writing about how I brought a few of them back into my modern work. This first article is technically a retrospective, because I've a bunch of the tooling I used behind the scenes on previous projects was inspired directly by its PLAY command.
https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2024/06/01/looting-gw-basic-the-music-macro-system/
Ух ты, сорцы #GwBasic оказывается опубликовали
Легенда
@DK1MI Nice👍 Used a Televideo TS-1603 computer with CP/M in the early 1980's. Didn't want to mess with the alternate PC-DOS that came with it.
I found this manual at a used book sale a few years ago and could't resist🙂
Spent a lot of time fooling around with GW Basic on an early IBM PC clone...
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(Image best viewed in @tut, or toot, or any other commandline client (or any client with monospace font support)
P.S. Huh! It's actually pretty viewable in #Fedilab if you turn your phone sideways. Of course, all of those unicode characters are the same width. Didn't consider that.
P.P.S. I actually remember making "Graphics" like that with #GWBASIC on #DOS in the early #90s (although not as good, for sure)
#GWBASIC 3.23 (16Bit DOS) without #vDOS or #DOSBOX in a 32Bit Windows Console :)
recompiled with MSDOS Player from
takeda-toshiya
@nixCraft remember writing something like a PO management system as part of a school assignment in the '80ies, albeit with an even older version of #TurboPascal.
Still remember how much I liked it compared to #GWBASIC, that I had used before 😅
IDEs as well as programming languages have really come a very long way since then.
10 REM ibm pc spinout
20 REM K.R. Sloan, Jr.
30 REM 1 January 1982
DOES ANYBODY KNOW THE ORIGINAL SOURCE OF THIS?
