The temperature is rising down at the building site as Fred the fireman attempts to control the blaze. The Big Heat, a #BASIC game published in #sinclairuser magazine.
Download the TAP file here:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/26674/ZX-Spectrum/Fireman
New from me: Calculating the date of Easter Sunday for all years from 1753 onwards ...
Two #BASIC routines from #microhobby that makes sound effects
The first one makes a buzzer like the ones on a 'modern alarm clock' (sic), while the second makes a sound that is 'hard to describe but which you will surely find some practical use for', according to the magazine
Battle on Hoth, a #starwars adventure in #BASIC from #yourcomputer magazine.
Download it here:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/460/ZX-Spectrum/Battle_on_Hoth
Drive the car of your dreams in this #BASIC program from #sinclairuser magazine.
The mag claims it's "the first computer game based on Uncle Clive's electric buggy" 
Get it here:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/14290/ZX-Spectrum/C5_Challenge
We spent the downtime at VCF East trying to get the COMX-35 to completely* fill the screen with randomly-placed asterisks. This was somewhat hampered by us having no COMX BASIC manual. We thought it couldn't be done ...
Thanks to the amazing Emma 02 emulator, it turns out it's possible and we were doing it wrong. We had no manual, though
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*: except for the last char position, for $reasons
Oh, I love this one:
"Comparing #FORTH to #BASIC is like comparing a Gothic cathedral to a mud hut." - Steve Vickers
( Vickers is one of the fathers of the legendary #JupiterAce #microcomputer )
Source: https://www.theregister.com/2012/09/21/jupiter_cantab_jupiter_ace_is_30_years_old/?page=3
"BUGS: Many. Perhaps competitive with Central American rain forests."
from the Chipmunk BASIC manual,
https://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/basic.man.html
A little #BASIC routine to create a 'psicodelic organ', according to #microhobby magazine
@dosnostalgic I hope Bill Gates has rescinded his open letter to hobbyists so that he doesn't come after me for having the source code for Microsoft Altair Basic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
#programming #BASIC #Altair #MITS
In the middle of the jungle there's a great temple where Mark, our hero, must pick up 20 keys to reach the treasure.
Get this #BASIC program from #microhobby here:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/13633/ZX-Spectrum/MicroHobby_Semanal_073-076
This VM is running with a NATted NIC, and legacy DOS TCP/IP LANMAN drivers do not display the DHCP info - So I can't see what IP address the VM is getting, and Trumpet Winsock needs that information. Handily, there is a DHCP.PRM binary file that gets created with the info in it, but there's no actual user tool as part of LANMAN to read it. So... Using only what I have on this VM, I write my own parser!
Shoot as many aliens as you can in this #BASIC & #machinecode program from #yourcomputer magazine.
Download the file game here:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1164/ZX-Spectrum/Crossfire
Nearly four decades ago #BillG promised Andre Warufsel and me to send us the source code of his #Basic4K for the #MITS #Altair. He never did and @ModernDayNTK described one of my repeted reminders as 'winning last week's Stalking Bill Gates challenge'.
Three days ago he did eventually publish a scan of the source code on his blog.
I updated the story at https://gizmonaut.net/soapflakes/EXE-199711.html
A #BASIC routine from #microhobby to draw a ellipse.
PX & PY are the coordinates of the center, RX & RY are the values of horiz and vert radius
#BillGates unearths #Microsoft's ancient code like a proud nerd dad
Founder shares 4K #Altair #BASIC source ahead of 50th anniversary
The code was the foundation on which Microsoft was built. Before Windows and before Office, there was a carefully crafted BASIC interpreter designed to fit within the limited resources available on the #Altair8800.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/bill_gates_altair_basic/
The Code: https://www.gatesnotes.com/microsoft-original-source-code
"What do Scottish men wear under their kilts?"
This is what this #BASIC program from #sinclairuser asks, and to know it, this list must be typed up or its TAP file be downloaded here:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/26737/ZX-Spectrum/Raging_Bull
I am a fan of #golang. I don't say it enough. My love of #python, #bash, and #BASIC, I wear on my sleeve, but among the many other languages I code in, I almost always appreciate an opportunity to use Go. It just clicked for me in a way rust never did.
(Obligatory disclaimer upon realizing the date that this is not an April Fools post.)
A cool 3D Pac Man clone made in #BASIC & #machinecode for #yourcomputer magazine.
You could type it up or write to the author to buy a copy (£2,30), but now you can download it from here:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1483/ZX-Spectrum/Dracman
This game by Mark C. Jones was later released as 3D Bat Attack by Cheetah Soft
Okay, I've gotten back to #BASIC, and this time I dug deeper. Seems like there are means of abstractions after all. There are one-liner functions (DEF FN) and multi-line subroutines (GO SUB & RETURN.) So I can actually structure my programs without #GOTO-s! Maybe I'll implement #ed in BASIC after all...
