Re: basic language retropedia

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <1176399900.399972.85770@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
Eric <englere_geo@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Apr 11, 4:35 pm, "proteanthread" <p...@newsgroups.net> wrote:
>> http://rtdos.com/tiki-index.php?page=The+BASIC+Language+Retropedia
> 
> Nice looking site, but that's going to be a huge task. I'm not sure
> how much interest there is in translating between different BASIC
> dialects, since most people stick with a favorite old dialect
> (AppleSoft, TRS-80 Level II, C-64 Basic2, GWBasic, etc).
> 
> The graphics and sound won't be portable, anyway. It's hard to find
> portable Basic programs that can be translated easily even if you do
> know the source and target dialects. It's mostly business style apps
> that can be easily ported.
> 
> Eric

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....

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