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Stewart Russell

We spent the downtime at VCF East trying to get the COMX-35 to completely* fill the screen with randomly-placed asterisks. This was somewhat hampered by us having no COMX BASIC manual. We thought it couldn't be done ...

Thanks to the amazing Emma 02 emulator, it turns out it's possible and we were doing it wrong. We had no manual, though

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*: except for the last char position, for $reasons

A screen shot from an emulated COMX-35 computer, showing 40 columns and 24 rows of cyan asterisks on a black background. The very last position at the bottom right is not filled, as COMX BASIC scrolls the screen if a character is printed in that position
A screenshot from an emulated COMX-35 home computer showing a short BASIC listing in magenta text on a black background. The program is: 10 DEFINT I: CPOS (0,0): CLS 20 LET I=RND(959) 30 CPOS (I/40,MOD(I,40)): PRINT "*"; 40 GOTO 20 50 END
#VCFeast2025#BASIC#RetroComputing
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Rusty Invader

Hey. I did a little Basic Program for the weekend 🤓 Some say its a typical #ASMR Video, but I just hope you all enjoy the sound of our youth ❤️ some loved it, many hated the screaming needle printers ... we called em sweet lawnmowers. And yes, I really loved the sound of these printers. If I only knew how to attach it to a modern PC ... hmmm but there should be a way, what do you think? 😉 Enjoy and follow for more #beerideas 🤓
#c64 #seikosha #basic #loveletter #oldschool #commodore64 #commodore

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ITs History!
The #Atari 1200XL was a 8bit #homecomputer running a #MOS 6502 #CPU at 1.79 MHz. When this beautiful machine was launched in 1983 with 64Kb RAM the price was under thousand dollars, but... https://youtu.be/JyA5tA5mmYY

$omehow, in the #8bitwar the #C64 was much more popular even when specs been almost the same. The difference in #BASIC language was less significant for the success. Most likely that competition was won by #Commodore because Jack Tramiel took the advice of his grandfather so serious.
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/22449/Atari-1200XL/

#retrocomputer #vector #graphics #vintage #Atari1200XL #8bit #computer #vectorgraphics #svgART #svg #cgi #art #illustration made by #gfkDSGN with #GPL #Inkscape and #FreeSoftware instead of #Adobe #Illustrator #Ai #SaaS #BS
Atari 1200XL retro computers revisited in a series of digital vector lithography
#bs
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#BillGates unearths #Microsoft's ancient code like a proud nerd dad
Founder shares 4K #Altair #BASIC source ahead of 50th anniversary
The code was the foundation on which Microsoft was built. Before Windows and before Office, there was a carefully crafted BASIC interpreter designed to fit within the limited resources available on the #Altair8800.
theregister.com/2025/04/03/bil

The Code: gatesnotes.com/microsoft-origi

The Register · Bill Gates unearths Microsoft's ancient code like a proud nerd dadBy Richard Speed
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NAM-IP Computer Museum

Pour fêter le 50ème anniversaire de la fondation de Microsoft (4/4/1975 Micro-Soft à l'époque) avec son (défunt) ami Paul Allen, Bill Gates rend public le code source de son BASIC pour Altair, le logiciel à la base de la société.

Il existait des listings désassemblés mais ici l'original en assembleur Intel 8080 avec les commentaires (scan PDF pour le moment)

Info détaillées dans le blog Gates notes
gatesnotes.com/microsoft-origi

#microsoft#gates#basic
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