[ale] [ALE] Happy Birthday BASIC

[Boris Borisov]

When first personal computers started getting announced in magazines I was
so exited.
I've actually "learned" some Basic statements and commands from these
magazine inserts with example short programs.
I never sat on computer and I knew for ... to loop and many others.
Then friend of mine got access to Apple II clone at work and use to sneak
me in after regular business hours.
Drawing circle on the screen in Hires mode what a blast :)

On Wed, May 8, 2024, 08:10 Chuck Payne via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> I am surprised that this one didn't get an email. Happy Birthday BASIC, it
> turned 60. It only three years older than me, and has more functions than
> me too.
>
>
> https://www.tomshardware.com/software/programming/the-basic-programming-language-turns-60-dartmouth-basic-started-it-all-in-1964
>
> As a kid, I got into BASIC because it was the way to get games. I forgot
> the name of the magazine, but I would buy it every month and sit at my VIC
> 20, trying the code in, playing such games and Oil, where you drill to get
> oil hoping to hit a pocket with a devil in it. Or trying to understand what
> the data fields were doing.
>
> Since I missed the 4th as well, here some BASIC Code for you guys
>
> https://www.goto10retro.com/p/star-wars-theme-in-basic
>
> Yes, I was one of those kids that would type some weird messages on the
> computers tha would repeat, like
>
> 10 print "Long live ALE, bring more beer"
> 20 goto 10
>
> Happy Computing guys
>
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