Tag: BASIC

Advent of Code 2023: CBASIC Compiler

Posted on 3 February 20241 January 2025 by Tim

After my post on Turbo Pascal et al, someone suggested that I try using the Digital Research CBASIC compiler – so I have done! The CBASIC dialect seems like a

RetroChallenge 2022/10 – Progress log

Posted on 4 October 20222 November 2022 by Tim

4th October 2022 I think I’ve finished typing! (The printout is around 14 A4 pages). I need to play the game over the next couple of days to iron the

The Valley - Swamp scene on the Sharp MZ-80K

RetroChallenge 2022/10 – Project aims

Posted on 27 September 20222 November 2022 by Tim

My aim: A re-implementation from scratch of “The Valley“, as published in Computing Today magazine, April 1982. I originally started working on this during August, but the project has fallen

Attributed to Newton

Posted on 7 February 2022 by Tim

The BASIC 10 liner competition for 2022 is open for entries until Sunday 26th March. This year I’ve submitted a Sharp MZ-80K program in the PUR-80 category called ‘Attributed to

Sunrise / sunset program running on a Sharp MZ-700

Calculating sunrise and sunset – v2

Posted on 23 January 202229 January 2022 by Tim

Over the last couple of weekends I’ve moved the code I converted to work on the RC2014 onto the MZ-700. Apart from some general tidying up, I’ve made a few

Calculating sunrise and sunset times

Posted on 6 January 2022 by Tim

Winter can be a dismal time in the UK. At least we’re now a few days past the winter solstice, so the mornings and evenings are starting to get brighter.

Advent of Code 2021 – Day 25

Posted on 28 December 202131 December 2021 by Tim

The days between Christmas and the new year are always quiet. The weather has been miserable and I’m not feeling particularly inspired to carry on with a brick breaker game

Moonlander

Posted on 1 September 20214 May 2025 by Tim

August’s coding project was an implementation of a Moonlander game in S-BASIC for the Sharp MZ-700. It was inspired by a version created by @electron_greg for the Commodore PET and

The drinking game problem

Posted on 8 August 202126 October 2021 by Tim

Hot on the heels of the 100 door problem, here is a monte carlo simulation for the drinking game problem as described by Mr Barton Maths and others. You have

Foundations laid

Posted on 28 March 202126 October 2021 by Tim

I’m writing a new MZ-700 game as a way of raising funds for Lymphoma Action during April 2021. I know its not quite April yet, but I’ve been laying a

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