What are we doing?
We’re updating the first million selling computer book, BASIC Computer Games, for 2022 and beyond!
Where can we discuss it?
Please see the discussion here for a worklog and conversation around this project.
Project structure
I have moved all the original BASIC source code into a folder for each project in the original book (first volume). Note that Lyle Kopnicky has generously normalized all the code (thanks Lyle!) to run against Vintage Basic circa 2009:
I’ve included all the games here for your tinkering pleasure. I’ve tested and tweaked each one of them to make sure they’ll run with Vintage BASIC, though you may see a few oddities. That’s part of the fun of playing with BASIC: it never works quite the same on two machines. The games will play better if you…