Re: basic language retropedia

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

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?

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