MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Basic Computer Games

> Thanks for noticing our new Basic Computer Games:Small Basic Edition E-Book.
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> David Ahl and George Beker (the robot illustrator) was gracious enough to allow us to
> republish this classic book that many of us old programmers cut our programming teeth
> on. David Ahl came out of retirement long enough to update the Forward and George
> illustrated 5 new robot illustrations for the 2010 edition. We did clean up the
> source code so it would work correctly in Microsoft Small Basic but we left much of
> the GOTO logic alone so the games would play just like you remembered them including
> Super Star Trek and Eliza. Super Star Trek was the hardest and most rewarding game to
> port. We are starting a Basic Computer Games: Small Basic Programming Competition in
> January if you would like to help us get rid of all those pesky GOTO statements and
> add multimedia graphics and sound to your favorite classics. The best multimedia
> upgrade for each game will appear in our next edition of the book for kids.
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> You may be interested in knowing that we also republished David Ahl's Basic Computer
> Adventures using Microsoft Small Basic and we are conducting a similar Small Basic
> Programming Competition. Come join in the fun!

That sure does sound like fun. Best of luck with the projects. If I get some spare time, I'll streamline and submit a couple of the basic progs - sans the GOTO's

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