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Re: basic language retropedia

Paul Schlyter wrote:

In article <VpednbODMuc_xrzbnZ2dnUVZ_qSrnZ2d@bresnan.com>,
proteanthread <post@newsgroups.net> wrote:



"Paul Schlyter" <pausch@saaf.se> wrote in message
news:evoilr$2kli$1@merope.saaf.se...



Not only.  These Basic games are fairly easy to translate:

 http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/
 http://www.atariarchives.org/morebasicgames/

Of course, these easily translated Basic games are also quite boring.
Scroll-up text only, no graphics, no sound....


Of course nobody should be expected games to translate exactly (esp.
depending on machine) but a close proximity or playability should be fine.
But this isn't our goal, our goal is to document the different basic
dialects and different command used in each basic (and perhaps translate one
command function in one dialect to another more appropriate command in
another dialect).



And the purpose of such a documentation would be to ease the translation
of BASIC software from one dialect of BASIC to another, right?

Will your overview also include the original Dartmouth BASIC from 1964?


That reminds me of an old Applesoft program I found recently that
used LET in front of every assignment statement!

I knew that I was reading something very near the "source"...

-michael

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