@dirtycommo@anticapitalist.party
2026-07-29 09:37 UTC
Replies (6)
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@kaaswe@swecyb.com 2026-07-29 11:47
@dirtycommo@anticapitalist.party I liked the BASIC on my Spectravideo. MSX 728, it was easy and supported sprites, which was nice. But I would go with the Atari ST BASIC with more functionality and options to assembly calls directly.
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@tony@toot.hoyle.me.uk 2026-07-29 11:49
@dirtycommo@anticapitalist.party BBC Micro was nice enough.. first one IIRC to have named procedure support.
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@izzy@social.shadowkat.net 2026-07-29 09:39
@dirtycommo@anticapitalist.party think the competitors for units sold were the Sinclair machines, the Apple II, BBC Micro, and Tandy machines
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@AbramKedge@beige.party 2026-07-29 09:41
@dirtycommo@anticapitalist.party BBC BASIC was a masterpiece by the great Sophie Wilson, who used it to model her design for the original ARM instruction set.
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@mjdxp@labyrinth.zone 2026-07-29 09:42
@dirtycommo@anticapitalist.party i believe if you type PRINT, an opening quotation mark, then press the clear key, it'll put a special character there instead of clearing the screen. when you run the program, it'll "print" the clear key and clear the screen. the same trick works for most keys, including the cursor and home keys. C64 BASIC is very limited in graphing capabilities though, you can't just make a sine wave or something without using poke commands. that's not even mentioning the horrible floppy loading commands
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@notimetoplay@elekk.xyz 2026-07-29 10:03
@dirtycommo@anticapitalist.party I made a couple of games in Sinclair Basic for a jam. They're some of the most popular I have on itch.io right now.