Has anyone ever tried...

Has anyone ever tried the original basic? Download it here http://www.geocities.com/jake_e_bush/vbasic.htm

[Zaphod64831]

I would think not, if it is older than AppleSoft Basic then it wouldn't include any of the more advanced functions, like separate subroutines and stuff.

Nope, it doesnt include anything. Its all one long row of code starting with

10 Cls

And ending with

9999 End

People, you should definitly check this out, its a great history leason!

[John]

What about BBC Basic and Basic for ZX Spectrum. Surely it was not before that lot - I thought BASICA first appeared with the IBM clones in the early-mid 80s. The Spectrum was around in the very early 80s.

John

The first Programming language was Algorthoriam or something like that..it was around the 60s

[Sam Finch]

I rebember BBC BASIC, That was Great. That was my 2nd language, my first was on this wierd calculator thing I had when I was 8, You could only see one line at a time and that line was only 12 characters long, it was brilliant, it had 16K of memory and by the time I put it to rest It was falling apart because I handled it so much.

[kedaman]

Have anone used GWBASIC out there? It was my first language

My first languge was Qbasic. But befoire that I used Batch files (I don't know if they count or not)

[kedaman]

batch files! LOL! HEhe, well it's somekind of programming language, or should i say more like a script

Back then i was stupid enough to think that you could make a game using batch files! :)

[kedaman]

I had my batch files to "execute" the bas .bas files with gwbasic, i thought they was like real exe-files.

you could run those files without compiling them into EXE's??

[noone]

Well isnt BASIC an interpretted language?

[kedaman]

Gwbasic rocks! There's a system command which exits to dos and running gwbasic filename, runs a basfile, it's almost like exe's when u put a batfile to do this

[Sam Finch]

I made a great game with batch files, It was text based obviously, but it had some great ASCII art

How'd you make a game using Batch files? what was it like?

[da_silvy]

does anyone ever write batch fiels?

[kedaman]

I write to my autoexec.bat sometimes

[Sam Finch]

M'Game was just a sort of "You arrive at a swamp, there is a boatsman who offers to take you accross."

and you'd have to write "Take Boat", or "go to Castle"

basicly I had loads of directories, one for each "place" and a little batch file in the directory for each command and one to put the picture up. as you moved through the game all the little batch files got moved and deleted and added because you were changing what you could do, You had to unzip the whole thing every time you started.

I don't think there is a need for batch files today.(with the exception of autoexec) In Windows, we have shortcuts instead of bach files.

Whats a batch file?

[noone]

Everynow and then I do have to change my autoexec.bat and I find bat files a convinient way of distrubing Java programs for Windows. When everyone who has Windows has WSH installed I guess we won't need .bat files anymore.

Chimp-> Batch files work like shortcuts in windows. For example: If you type C:\Mygame.exe, the computer will load that file up. They also work as initializing drivers for Windows (like your autoexec.bat file)

[kedaman]

Well the LNK's in windows doesn't really replace the batman file, you can make pretty advanced things with it.

[noone]

Batman files (is that what were calling them now?) are more like a simple form of shell programming. Not up to what you can do in Unix/Linux but they still came in pretty handy back in the days of DOS.

A little off subject but I heard the Win2K will not be supporting DOS anymore.

[CyberSurfer]

I agree.

Also, I would like to draw to everyone's attention the following quote by ked...

Gwbasic rocks!

[mendhak]

dance, baby, dance!