#gwbasic — Public Fediverse posts
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Yesterday I visited the computer games museum 🕹🎮👾 in Berlin. It was a flashback in so many ways; I really enjoyed it.✨️ The highlight was my very first computer, with which I learned my very first programming language, #gwbasic. The Schneider CPC with its quite exotic 3-inch floppy disk drive. 💾
Hands up, who knows GW-BASIC and maybe even used it?
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Yesterday I visited the computer games museum 🕹🎮👾 in Berlin. It was a flashback in so many ways; I really enjoyed it.✨️ The highlight was my very first computer, with which I learned my very first programming language, #gwbasic. The Schneider CPC with its quite exotic 3-inch floppy disk drive. 💾
Hands up, who knows GW-BASIC and maybe even used it?
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Episódio 162 – BASIC.BAS – Parte B
https://retropolis.com.br/2025/04/16/episodio-162-parte-b/
#Podcast #AcornSystemBASIC #Amiga #AMOS #amstrad #arm #AtariSTBASIC #AtomBASIC #BAS #BASIC #BASIC68 #BASIC69 #BASICA #BBCBASIC #CARealizer #Commodore #copyleft #CPC #DarkBASIC #DB2 #Dijkstra #gwbasic #IBMBASIC #LibreOffice #LinguagemDeProgramao #LocomotiveBasic #MallardBASIC #MICROBASIC #microsoft #MSX #MSXBASIC #Picocalc #podcast #QB64 #qbasic #QuickBASIC #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #s
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Episódio 162 – BASIC.BAS – Parte B
https://retropolis.com.br/2025/04/16/episodio-162-parte-b/
#Podcast #AcornSystemBASIC #Amiga #AMOS #amstrad #arm #AtariSTBASIC #AtomBASIC #BAS #BASIC #BASIC68 #BASIC69 #BASICA #BBCBASIC #CARealizer #Commodore #copyleft #CPC #DarkBASIC #DB2 #Dijkstra #gwbasic #IBMBASIC #LibreOffice #LinguagemDeProgramao #LocomotiveBasic #MallardBASIC #MICROBASIC #microsoft #MSX #MSXBASIC #Picocalc #podcast #QB64 #qbasic #QuickBASIC #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #s
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Old school coding
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Old school coding
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If you want to try my #msdos system info nonsense program for #gwbasic, it's now publicly available:
https://git.rainbow-100.com/cgit.cgi/GWFetch/about/
It's not tested everywhere, so I'm sure it'll have some problems. -
If you want to try my #msdos system info nonsense program for #gwbasic, it's now publicly available:
https://git.rainbow-100.com/cgit.cgi/GWFetch/about/
It's not tested everywhere, so I'm sure it'll have some problems. -
DR DOS detection in #gwbasic gwfetch needed some attention, but pretty happy with the results!
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DR DOS detection in #gwbasic gwfetch needed some attention, but pretty happy with the results!
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I've been struggling for days with calling x86 assembly from within #gwbasic following the manuals, examples, etc. Today I finally noticed that variables' addresses in #gwbasic (via the VARPTR() function) just... change!
I had a loop reading and poking data into an array to be executed as machine code, and, boom!, the address of the array changed because I did a simple operation also within the loop as a result of a conditional.
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I've been struggling for days with calling x86 assembly from within #gwbasic following the manuals, examples, etc. Today I finally noticed that variables' addresses in #gwbasic (via the VARPTR() function) just... change!
I had a loop reading and poking data into an array to be executed as machine code, and, boom!, the address of the array changed because I did a simple operation also within the loop as a result of a conditional.
I feel relieved that I sorted this out. -
New on the blog: I picked out a few bits of the old DOS BASIC programming experience and have will be writing about how I brought a few of them back into my modern work. This first article is technically a retrospective, because I've a bunch of the tooling I used behind the scenes on previous projects was inspired directly by its PLAY command.
https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2024/06/01/looting-gw-basic-the-music-macro-system/
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New on the blog: I picked out a few bits of the old DOS BASIC programming experience and have will be writing about how I brought a few of them back into my modern work. This first article is technically a retrospective, because I've a bunch of the tooling I used behind the scenes on previous projects was inspired directly by its PLAY command.
https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2024/06/01/looting-gw-basic-the-music-macro-system/
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P.S. Huh! It's actually pretty viewable in #Fedilab if you turn your phone sideways. Of course, all of those unicode characters are the same width. Didn't consider that.
P.P.S. I actually remember making "Graphics" like that with #GWBASIC on #DOS in the early #90s (although not as good, for sure)
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(Image best viewed in @tut, or toot, or any other commandline client (or any client with monospace font support)
P.S. Huh! It's actually pretty viewable in #Fedilab if you turn your phone sideways. Of course, all of those unicode characters are the same width. Didn't consider that.
P.P.S. I actually remember making "Graphics" like that with #GWBASIC on #DOS in the early #90s (although not as good, for sure)
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@nixCraft remember writing something like a PO management system as part of a school assignment in the '80ies, albeit with an even older version of #TurboPascal.
Still remember how much I liked it compared to #GWBASIC, that I had used before 😅
IDEs as well as programming languages have really come a very long way since then.
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10 REM ibm pc spinout
20 REM K.R. Sloan, Jr.
30 REM 1 January 1982DOES ANYBODY KNOW THE ORIGINAL SOURCE OF THIS?
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Microsoft Releases the Source Code You Wanted Almost 30 Years Ago - In the late 1970s and early 1980s, if you had a personal computer there was a fair chance it eithe... more: https://hackaday.com/2020/05/22/microsoft-releases-the-source-code-you-wanted-almost-30-years-ago/ #basicinterpreter #retrocomputing #sourcecode #microsoft #gw-basic #gwbasic #github #basic #news
