#Retro Programming

[dimalink]

Kind Animals Little Cards version 0.2 “Crawl Next” – small paws makes a little step

So this is little sun already is looking at your little house. Little animas are already there – at the green grass. They are already playing. And they are doing their things. This version suggests new 5 little cards with little funny animals.

And little list. It is little program for display little cards. And cards themselves – they are little programs. With a little picture and a story about little funny animal. Theme with good and kind animals continues! And now with format of being program with programming language Visual basic.

It is cool theme to do programming with Visual basic! It is comfortable and good programming language. I like a lots Basic family language. Visual Basic - special for Windows platform. Windows, and most  different applications with windows – they are most easy way to make with this Visual basic! This project, also, including a point of practice Visual basic.

And now, we speak, about our friends. Good and kind animals. Today, there will be little mouses. Duck will to be.  And we see who else.

Let`s see. Duck is going. It is so a big gray bird. She likes to swim. And, this time, she is near the water. Swamp is not big or overgrown pond. River with calm flow. And duck is goes to the water. Little flowers are growing here. Most different. They are beautiful.  Duck is having joy about flowers. Just, it was ended a little rain. And now it is little sun.

There are puddles all around. It is a water region. It is best place for duck! Quack! Water. And a lake. River. It is ok to swim here. And to see little flowers. Quack!

And here we see one more little friend. Well, speaking the truth. He is already big. This is chicken. He is so yellow and like a circle. As a little sun. So he went to a eat some little grass. Look, what a little sun with two little legs is running here. And all the time you can hear – Quack quack!

 There is a blue sky above. And here you see a little grass. Some place, it is yellow. And in some places it will to grow new green grass. A little branches are small here. It is so funny for a little chicken to avoid such obstacles. Or even to jump. And jump over these little branches, and sometimes they are bigger.

Most of time, chicken is just walking. And he has a walking time. He watches the little grass. And look at the sky. He is growing yet! And now he is on free time! He goes for a walk. To say hello to little sun! Little sun is watching at him from the sky and do a smile. Sun speaks – hello, little chicken! Now, it will to be lots of warm day ahead! It is best time to grow! And to have fun!

  And these are mice. Little mouses. Two tiny field mouses. They came to me as a guest from a high grass. Once upon a time. This is my countryside memory. I was sitting in a corner, at the side.  In a shadows of a high plants. Astras. Or Golden balls. They are high. And put a little chair for myself. Little stool. And I was sitting in a shadow of these plants. It was 4 of the day. Or 5. And it was warm. Sun. A lot of green all around. Middle of the summer.

And, something is happens, some noise, rustle in the bush. Once. Twice. So it is little rustle. And get calm. And this way it was several times. And later. They start to arrive two mouses. Out of the high grass. There, grass was even higher. And there – nobody walks. And they all the time, run closer to the ditch. And there it was a water. They stand. And run away. And several times they do same things. At last, they cross ditch. And run into high grass to drink a tea. And I go to drink a tea, too.

Tiny mouses adventurers were going to drink a tea. To the another bush. Just to think about it, the height of flowers, that to be seemed for them. It is something gigantic for them. And there, they have a little table and little chairs. And there, they drink their mice tea.

Mice, mouses, they are so interesting. New friends!

 And here you can see one more tiny mouse. It is so gray. Brown. He sits at the grass. Near his little house. And he is doing his garden things. Same as me, he is put seed in a seedbed, and these are flowers and vegetables to grow. Maybe something delicious to grow. Strawberries or potato. Dill or salad.  And flowers. Of course, beautiful flowers.

Tiny mouse has lots of things to do. Check all the seedbeds. And to sit under the little sun. To drink a tea in time break.  Same as you and me, good and kind animals are living same. Lots of tiny mice. Frogs, maybe too. But you cannot see them so easy, they are in a grass.

One more tiny mouse. Well, he is already sleeping!

It is already evening. And beyond a little window stars are start to shine. So this is one more tiny mouse. He is already falling into the sleep. He is going to sleep, he put himself to bed. He is dreaming about stars before fall asleep. And about a huge grass. He remember his friends. And about how he spent the day. What he was doing. And what he will to do tomorrow.

He is sleeping inside his little bed. Inside his little house. He has a good and cozy little house. Day was very good. And tiny mouse is happy and is turning into the sleep. And behind the windows - there are little stars.  Who knows, where they come from?

Good and kind animals. There are lots of them! This time, five new little animals. And we get to know something about their life. Mice are running and crawling. Sometimes they do it very accurate way. Sometimes - fast. And here, it is a version already goes to number 0.2. And magic word – crawl next.

Also as accurate as tiny mouse. Version is growing up a little. And so slowly. And accurate. So this is a small tiny step forward. Little paws are making step forward!

Kind animals little cards version 0.2 "Crawl next" - it is newest version. Six little cards about good and kind animals. With little picture. And small story. Lots about mice. Duck. And chicken! Big and yellow! And lots lots about mouse! Mouse - crossing the ditch, or going to sleep!

Kind animals little cards: http://www.dimalink.tv-games.ru/apps/kindanimalslittlecards/index_eng.html Website: http://www.dimalink.tv-games.ru/home_eng.html

[basic-retro-programming]

Get started with QBasic ...

Contents At A Glance

Introduction to QBasic

Using The QBasic Environment

Working With Data

Operators And String Variables

Advanced Input And Output

Making Decisions With Data

Controlling Program Flow

Data Structures

Buit-In Functions

Programming Subroutines

Disk Files

Sound And Graphics

Debugging Your Programs

Post #344: Greg Perry & Steven Potts, Crash Course in QBasic, The Fastest Way To Move To QBasic, Second Edition, QUE Corporation, Indianapolis, USA, 1994.

[glowing-disciple]

Programming for really old computers makes you more aware of just how much things have changed for the better.

It also shows you just how bloated modern technology gets - you can afford to be sloppy these days.

[gbfmi1]

(PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING)

check out the game "Yar's Revenge". the way this game looks and sounds is fucking insane.

the sound design feels extremely sinister and menacing to me, with that low hum in the background the entire time. it kind of reminds me of "Sinistar" in that way. also the fact that the explosion sound plays 2&1/2 times, was probably an oversight or technical limitation but it adds an extra strangeness factor. the eye-bleeding rainbow explosion is also incredible. I understand the rumors about Polybius now, like how did games like this not turn gen x into a bunch of aliens or something?

that rainbow colored static is the game's code itself, in what seems to me like intentional glitch art, by using the XOR operator to create the unique scrolling pattern!

Reverse Engineering Game Code from the Neutral Zone (youtube.com)

[realbadatpoker]

I miss extended ASCII from dos 6.2. I want my lines, and chr 219.

[coredumped69]

this is so cool, they even linked where you can download these books from the 80s

[asspull3x]

Okay, Asspull IIIx tech talk time.

So, on a classic Mac, a Toolbox call is invoked with a single 16-bit word using the A-line exception handler. For example, a "ShowCursor()" call compiles to just "0xA853". The A-line exception handler can then look up what it should do and I've seen it, it's a bit of a hairy mess.

So you trade the size per invocation for a single rather complicated routine.

Comparatively, the Amiga uses a bunch of pointers to different libraries. "IIntuition-‌>CloseWindow(wind)", to quote a random example, is only one level of indirection away from what the A3X does.

And the A3X? Well, by my count a single "interface-‌>textLibrary-‌>ClearScreen()" call takes... eight instructions, 16 bytes. Load "interface" into A0, grab "textLibrary" from there, then "ClearScreen", then "jsr %a0@".

So back to the Amiga, I'd say it has to load "IIntuition", then grab "CloseWindow" from there. So... six instructions, right? Not counting setting up the arguments.

Now, taking one out of the Amiga's book... using "const ITextLibrary* text = interface-‌>textLibrary" and then "text-‌>ClearScreen()", instead of "interface-‌>textLibrary-‌>ClearScreen()" does cut back a bunch -- six instructions to the dot, for every invocation.

I'd say that's a win. Smaller, but not as intricate as the Mac's way.

(Note: I say "instructions" but it's really "instruction words". The first one to grab the interface pointer is three words, then each dereferencing is two words, and a single-word JSR to run it. Subtract one MOVEAL instruction, two words, for Amiga style.)

[basic-retro-programming]

Post #243: CoupleOfDays, Margaret Hamilton, 1969, Apollo Project Software Engineering Division, 2023.

Margaret Hamilton, Director of the Apollo project Software Engineering Division, with a stack of papers containing the code to the Apollo Guidance Computer navigation software. The software that on this day, in 1969, guided Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin when they landed on the Moon.

[dimalink]

Hello!

Hello!

I am doing simple computer games and programs. Like retro. C. Including a retro programming ( Basic, Pascal, Visual Basic, Delphi, Lazarus ). I am learning programming.

And doing art, doing pixel art drawing. All the time I was dreaming about making gfx for computer games.  In style of 8 bit or 16 bit. And everything that I can to do.

Do a simple games and programs

And a little of programs!

Trying low poly 3d in blender. Trying music (electro, bass guitar, synthesizer, simply saying – different music).

Sometimes doing small tales based on my games or about different themes. About good and kind animals or action movie based tale. Doing sometimes photo, or even grab for myself a VHS video cam, maybe to use one day.

Retro tech

Computer games. Retro and new. Console retro and computer games

I like music, and computer games. And big fan to run to the country house during summertime. Retro techniks, game consoles, VHS, old computers.

About all of these thing it will be blog.

If short:

Programming. Small games and programs. Art. Pixel art. Music. Summer. Country house.

 Dima Link is making retro videogames, apps, a little of music, write stories, and some retro more.

WEBSITE: http://www.dimalink.tv-games.ru/home_eng.html

ITCHIO: https://dimalink.itch.io/

GAMEJOLT: https://gamejolt.com/@DimaLink/games

[basic-retro-programming]

BASIC - Safe the date: May 1, 1964 - 2024 ...

Post #295: BASIC Programming, May 1, 1964 - 2024, The 60th anniversary of BASIC happens this year, Safe the date!, 2024.

[glowing-disciple]

Been an interesting day of working my way around DOS programming. Found a few new ways to crash programs and DosBox.

But I also managed to figure out:

Keyboard event handling

Mouse event handling

Handling graphic modes

Double buffering

PC speaker playback

I’m not exactly sure what led to some of the crashes, but this is already more than I need for what I’d like to do.

It would probably be a good idea to get FreeDOS or maybe even an older Windows VM working, but this is a very good start.

[basic-retro-programming]

Post #258: Advanced Bullshit Wizard, First Class Retro Software, 2023.

[djopensource]

I analyzed the code of the Terminator's vision.

[digitalismmm]

Cable chaos

[cool-retro-term-official]

Github has it for you. It's literally on gitlab. Just go on sourceforge and download the source code. Just git clone it from my gitea ! Right. On. Gitbucket ! Just click your way to my Kallithea and download it ! It's on sourcehut now !

[basic-retro-programming]

The British computer magazine INPUT was a weekly computer course and compilation published by Marshall Cavendish International Ltd. from 1984 to 1987. A total of 52 issues were published, with issue 52 containing the index. INPUT was published regularly in England, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Malta. The subtitle Learn Programming - for fun and the future promises an entertaining and relaxed way to learn programming for the languages ​​BASIC, Assembler, Logo, Pascal, LISP and Forth. There are also tips for programming applications and computer games, as well as how to use peripherals. (C64-Wiki)

Post #330: Input, Vol. 1, Nr. 12, Learn programming - for fun and the future, Marshall Cavendish Partworks, United Kingdom, 1984-86.

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