Scripting In Commodore BASIC For Windows & Linux

SomeoneGotMyNick writes "Someone more nostalgic than I am, and with a lot of time on their hands, had created a scripting language based on Commodore BASIC for Mac OS X. They recently finished a version that works on Windows and Linux. You can pass the text of a BASIC program as a parameter to the program. I found it odd that it took 1.8 MB of source code to compile to an interpreter that used to fit in 8K of ROM space. If this ever becomes popular, perhaps we'll see Obfuscated CBM BASIC contests." In a simliar vein, in the comments someone points out what is essentially an open source AmigaOS Classic.

The important quesiton is...

[Thelasko]

When will somebody port Radar Rat Race [wikipedia.org] to Windows or Linux?

READY.

[F-3582]

10 FORA=1TO300
20 PRINT"YAY!"
30 NEXT
RUN

Re:TI Basic

[aardwolf64]

I had to get my dad to program the dungeon text adventures, so it wouldn't spoil everything for me. There's just something about typing everything that could happen to you that ruins the game.

Almost tempted

[ducomputergeek]

I have an old book on how to build your own telescope from the 1980's that included how to hook up a C64 and use a joystick to control the telescope's movements all written in C64 Basic. I remember porting it to QBasic circa 1994/5 and using it for a telescope I had to account for planetary motion for photography. (Back before every telescope came with such features).

That would almost be fun...wow I really am a geek....*shudders* I'm going back to my cave now.

Re:The important quesiton is...

[Thelasko]

I should have known somebody was going to take that comment seriously. Mention porting a crappy game from 25 years ago, and somebody on Slashdot will do/find it.

Retrocomputing

[Orion Blastar]

Now my 25 year old C64 BASIC programs can run under Linux, OSX, or Windows.

If only my 1541 floppies didn't suffer from bit rot and I loaned most of my collection to friends who didn't return them and somehow lost it after they moved.

Another Security Hole

[Nom du Keyboard]

Just as we do our best to get .vbs files locked down someone comes up with a new scripting language just waiting for exploitation.

I hit L, Shift-O to the Quote and then Dollar!

[JoshDM]

If you know the dir of the nerdcore rhyme, then holler!

Re:READY.

[Blakey Rat]

Oh crap, I typoed the code. I'm the newb!

I can make up for it:

10 FOR X = 1 TO 16
20 PRINT "YAY!";
30 POKE 646,X
40 NEXT X
50 GOTO 10

Now we're cooking with gas.

Ah sweet memories, I love /.

[Phizzle]

I remember coding a nuissance program in 6510 assembler on my C-64 that sat in the background and when a key was pressed it had a tiny chance not to echo it to the screen or to echo it twice. After installing it on several classroom computers off the old 1541 floppy it drove some students batty, they thought they had sticky keys. This was before real viruses :)

Re:TI Basic

[lxs]

I used to have a book with type-in adventures where they obfuscated all the strings by shifting them one character precisely to counter that problem.

Oh and typing in five pages of numbers representing binary code was fun. There were actually checksums printed at the end of each line and a little program showed you the checksums in the corner of the screen after entering each line of code.

Man I feel old. You young whippersnappers don't know how good you have it with your iPhones and your WiFi.

malicious code

[RackinFrackin]

SYS 64738

Re:TI Basic

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't soften his boner dude. He might not be aware that some TVs only displayed black & white. Leave him to his fantasy.