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Re: Basic Computer Games - Small Basic Edition
12/08/10 01:10 PM
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> Thanks for noticing our new Basic Computer Games:Small Basic Edition E-Book. > > > 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. > > 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
Moose
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