![]() ![]() I never mastered programming, but I'm extremely pleased I was able to experience it in some fashion through a BASIC dialect. I once tried to count all the variations - at the time there were over 280. It's amazing to think that five decades after its creation, the language has evolved and diversified to the point where you can use it to create SNES quality games on a 3DS, or commercial quality PC games which are sold online. Below you'll find my original leftover materials which covered "10 BASIC Dialects" and "10 Things touched by BASIC", with interview quotes, in addition to two new entries - SmileBASIC, from Japan, and the QBasic game Black Annex which is on steam. Due to space not everything could be used. I even spoke with Marc-Oliver Ihm on Yabasic for the Sony's PlayStation 2. In the August 2012 issue of Game Developer Magazine I interviewed Dr Thomas Kurtz who co-created BASIC David Ahl, who wrote the million selling 101 BASIC Computer Games book which helped popularise the language John Lutz who was head of the True BASIC company and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who created Integer BASIC for the first Apple computers. The Beginners All-purpose Standard Instruction Code programming language turns 50 years old in just a few days. ![]()
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