Tag: BASIC

One of the joys of shielding from the Covid-19 pandemic is that it’s given me time to dust off and repair my Sharp MZ-80K. After 40 or so years in

Published in Computing Today, October 1980. I’d missed this game written for the Sharp MZ-80K in the 1980s, so I spent a couple of covid-19 lockdown hours yesterday typing it

Published in Computer and Video Games, August 1983, Epidemic is a race against time to cure a patient of a nasty infection. It’s usually more fun to lose rather than

A game from a 1982 edition of Personal Computer World. One other feature of this game is the score displayed in the top left corner of the screen. It represents

A game where you are rewarded for shooting simulated wildlife and (bizzarely) the sun. Even though the code asks if you want instructions these haven’t been typed in from whatever

A program to calculate which combinations of resistors from the E24 range can be placed in parallel to deliver a non-standard resistance, within a user-specified tolerance. This was originally published

A post-apocolyptic driving game for one or more players. It feels very appropriate in the time of Brexit & Covid-19, despite what Haltemprice MP David Davis once said about sunlit

My implementation (from 1982) of Computing Today’s “The Valley” adventure game. As a teenager, I was obviously too lazy to type the instructions into the code, but they are pretty

A simple prime number generator, using the sieve of Erastothenes algorithm (complexity n log n). The implementation was originally written for my RC2014 and translated into Sharp BASIC in early