Filed under: Fun, Games, Internet, Time-Wasters
Run BASIC: today's time-waster
by Jay Savage May 24th 2007 at 1:00PM
Now you can. Sort of. Run BASIC is a site that lets you relive those heady days of PEEKs and POKEs by giving you a place to run BASIC programs.
Actually, Run BASIC is based on Liberty BASIC, not the more familiar Apple or PC versions, so it only takes you back to 1992. But all your favorite command line and lo-res favorites are there, including hangman and HiLo. You can also write your own programs, or just dig out those old manuals.
This really geeked me out when I saw it. The thrill I got from flipping on our first //e, typing a few simple lines into the built-in BASIC interpreter, typing 'RUN,' and watching my programs actually begin to to something was what got me hooked on computers in the first place as a kid. Seeing how high the computer could count was always a favorite, as was anything that involved an infinite loop or GOTO sequence that left an END someplace other than the last line.
[via Chris]
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Chris said 1:56PM on 5-24-2007
Codeide.com is better, it lets you input several other codes as well including pascal and Perl
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John said 2:14PM on 5-24-2007
I remember getting computer magazines in those days bringing them to school and writing line by line on the schools apple //e some pretty cool games they had in back of those magazines.
like hangman, even frogger. those were the days.
I wrote them and sold them for 10 cents to the people who didn's want to do the writing. it was fun.
i had fun watching it all come together little by little. i would write 10 or 20 lines and run it just to see what did what. very fun.
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Alfredo said 8:18PM on 5-24-2007
Chris,
I just used codeide.com and it sucks. There is barely a list of a few commands that can be used by the basic language. I have already run a couple of codes at runbasic and they work like a charm.
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