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Seems closer to an Intel i386 in specs, no? To think this is now retailing for 10 euros ;)

In any case, an entire generation of game developers back in the day cut their teeth on BASIC. And many of the fundamentals of arcade era game design can still be gleaned from those ancient manuals ;)

Vintage BASIC

http://www.vintage-basic.net/games.html

More BASIC Computer Games

https://archive.org/details/More_BASIC_Computer_Games_1980_C...

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Here are some more, there is a nice archive for 8 bit Atari.

https://www.atariarchives.org/

That list is missing one of the formative books of my youth: Dr. Wacko Presents Atari Basic and the Wiz-Bang Miracle Machine

https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-dr-c-wacko-presents-a...

Yay for Atari basic!

I still have my copy of More BASIC Computer Games. Hunt the Wumpus!

I also still have a copy of the Liverpool Software Gazette which had "Stargate: A 3D Planetarium", (from around 1980).

Massive listings, and you not only had to fix typos, you also had to convert between different versions of BASIC.

I think I have a few LSG issues. I wonder if I should scan them and put them up on the web somewhere.

I think that would be a great idea. I am going to have to rummage around in my loft to find some of these old magazines later.

> I also still have a copy of the Liverpool Software Gazette which had "Stargate: A 3D Planetarium", (from around 1980).

Tidying up and I just found it. It's May 1980. I was sure I had lots of them but only found three (Nov. 1979, May 1980, Feb./Apr. 1981). Also found my Leasco Basic manual from 1969.

I'll put the LSGs up on kwhitefoot.neocities.org over the next few weeks. Might even try to see if any of programs can be made to work.

And Sinclair’s BASIC for the ZX-80. Remember, that hardware used the Z80 RAM refresh circuitry to drive the video output. All the user computing was done during the vertical retrace interval! The technique derived from Don Lancaster’s Video Toaster. Check out Lancaster’s wicki page.

This was the archive I raided for source code when I wrote my BASIC interpreter in Java (http://www.vintage-basic.net/games.html)

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