Questions tagged [basic-lang]
BASIC (an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use.
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Commodore-FizzBuzz
I felt nostalgic recently, and decided to install a Commodore-64 emulator. C-64 BASIC 2.0 is the first language I ever programmed in... some 20 years ago (yes, C-64 was already well beyond deprecated ...
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Python reimplementation of Lost In Space by Tim Hartnell
In a university library, there was copy of "Making The Most Of Your ZX 81" by Tim Hartnell. I flipped to an interesting page from the index and found this program in BASIC, and thought it interesting ...
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Simple BASIC to Simpletron Machine Language compiler in C
I implemented a compiler that compiles a dialect of BASIC known as SimpleBASIC into Simpletron Machine Language to be run by the Simpletron simulator.
I wrote the manual for the SimpleBASIC compiler ...
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Monty Hall in BBC BASIC and Python
How would I be able to improve the speed of this Monty Hall program?
Interestingly, the same code written using BBC BASIC for Windows completes the task in half the time of the Python code.
Python:
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Collision system in Pong-like game
I am writing a game like Pong. Therefore I am using an entity system approach, so I use a Component-based design.
The hardest part until now was to write the collision system. As I just began with ...
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RC4 in Sinclair BASIC; Working around one-indexed arrays
This is a program written in Sinclair BASIC (48 BASIC) for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It uses a hardcoded key (null right now) as seen in the bottom and outputs a stream of integers generated with RC4. ...
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Finding the numerically listed string to the center algorthim
The algorithm takes input for a string's length for L, and the number of strings altogether for X. The hamming distance is for input D. Input Z calculates the exact amount of all possible characters ...
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The Lost Forest: The Beginning (text based choose your own adventure)
I'm currently making a text based choose your own adventure game with possible RPG elements.
I'm somewhat new at programming. My father is very good ad QB64, but isn't always able to help me with my ...
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Calculating kills and deaths in a game
I'm trying to make a program that calculates your k/d ratio (kill/death, which is used in FPS games to make people believe that it's skill), how many kills you need without dying once to reach a ...
