Saw this on Hacker News; it's an ongoing compendium of classic BASIC games, rewritten in up to 10 accepted programming languages; as well as space for "alternative" languages.
"Basic Computer Games", rewritten in multiple programming languages
https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games
9 Comments
pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org · 18 pts · 3y
This looks incredibly cool and fun. Would be interested trying to re-write some of the games myself when I have some free time.
dovah@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 3y
Said every developer.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 3y
It has only been about 44 years. I expect to have some time next week.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 3y
Same. Should be able to get it done in two to three weeks. This time for sure maybe
evatronic@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 3y
I'll set aside a couple hours this weekend to knock out a couple.
pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org · 7 pts · 3y
Indeed... :|
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 3y
I did this with a BASIC game called Wizard's Castle that I played a lot of as a kid. The first step was to "reverse engineer" the manually-compressed BASIC code and write up a spec. Then I rewrote it in Rust as a learning exercise. 🙂
https://github.com/beejjorgensen/Wizards-Castle-Info
TheBananaKing@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Holy shit, I used to own this book.
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net · 2 pts · 3y
Why would anyone want to change from BASIC?
TheBananaKing@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y