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"Basic Computer Games", rewritten in multiple programming languages

github.com GitHub - coding-horror/basic-computer-games: An updated version of the classic "Basic Computer Games" book, with well-written examples in a variety of common MEMORY SAFE, SCRIPTING programming languages. See https://coding-horror.github.io/basic-computer-games/

An updated version of the classic "Basic Computer Games" book, with well-written examples in a variety of common MEMORY SAFE, SCRIPTING programming languages. See https://coding-horror.gi...

GitHub - coding-horror/basic-computer-games: An updated version of the classic "Basic Computer Games" book, with well-written examples in a variety of common MEMORY SAFE, SCRIPTING programming languages. See https://coding-horror.github.io/basic-computer-games/

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.

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1 yr. ago

[HN] A repository of “BASIC Computer Games” code in modern languages

github.com /coding-horror/basic-computer-games

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This looks incredibly cool and fun. Would be interested trying to re-write some of the games myself when I have some free time.
- Said every developer.
  
  It has only been about 44 years. I expect to have some time next week.
  
  Indeed... :|
- 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
Holy shit, I used to own this book.
Why would anyone want to change from BASIC?
Holy shit, I used to own this book.

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