Show 027: BASIC

15/01/2006 35 min
Show 027: BASIC

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Episode Synopsis

 
10 PRINT "Hello, Retrobits Listeners!"
20 GOTO 10
Welcome to Show 027!  This week's Topic: The Beginner's All-Purpose
Symbolic Instruction Code (or BASIC, for short...)
Topics and links discussed in the podcast...
More Commodore news - here's
an interview with Bil Herd
on the Commodore Plus/4 World
website!
Check out the Vintage Computing and
Gaming website for "adventures in collecting, playing, and hacking vintage
computing and gaming devices."
If you're in the US and interested in products from Individual Computers (e.g.,
the Retro Replay), then have a look at the
C64 Reloaded Store.
As always, it's all there on Wikipedia - articles on the
BASIC
programming language,
Dartmouth BASIC, and the
Dartmouth
Timesharing System!
Want to program in BASIC on modern day systems?  Have a look at
FreeBASIC,
DarkBASIC,
BlitzBASIC, or
Visual BASIC.NET 2005.
Be sure to send any comments, questions or feedback to [email protected].
For online discussions on Retrobits Podcast topics, check out the
Retrobits
Podcast forum on the PETSCII
Forums page!
Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.
Thanks for listening!
- Earl