Re: one-line programs

["N.N. Thayer" <nnthayer@hotmail.com>]

On Jan 31, 5:25 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> Harry Potter wrote:
> > On Jan 31, 11:47 am, lyricalnanoha
> > <lyricalnan...@usotsuki.hoshinet.org> wrote:
> >> On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Ammammata wrote:
> >>> hello (this is my first post on this ng)
> >>> several years ago... it was 1980-something, I ran on the apple (and later on
> >>> other computers) some nice one-line programs, written in basic, typically
> >>> games
> >>> the line was of course quite long, with several statements
> >>> anyone remember this?
> >> The disk "Silicon Salad" has a slew of two-liners...
>
> >> -uso.
>
> > The OP piqued my interest!  Where can I find these?
>
> IIRC, Nibble published these by the hundreds, though most of them were
> not really "games", but demonstrations.  There were even books of
> one-liners published!

I uploaded some to Asimov last year:

ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/magazines/nibble/Nibble%20Magazine%20One-Two%20Line%20Contest%20Collection.dsk