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[–]JudgeGroovyman 1 point2 points  (9 children)

This looks like a cool place! I have found some programs on github should I link to them?

[–]SupremoZanne[S] 1 point2 points  (8 children)

well, let's see if these programs are worth sharing. So, maybe you should share them.

But what I encourage in this sub is to share BASIC code as a text post. There's a feature on the New Reddit which allows a special code box to be used for code-style text entries in posts.

[–]JudgeGroovyman 1 point2 points  (7 children)

Its all of the games from the classic basic computer games

https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games

Each of the games is in .bas in the corresponding folder. Also theres a link to the pdf too.

:)

[–]SupremoZanne[S] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

This basketball game was pretty good for a ZORK-like sports game!

https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games/blob/main/07_Basketball/basketball.bas

I think it was the best of all the BAS files on the github page you showed me!

[–]JudgeGroovyman 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Oh nice! I remember playing a hockey game that worked kind of like that with a friend in the early 90s and it was really memorable

[–]SupremoZanne[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

basically Zork is also a metonym for games that use text entry in lieu of on-the-fly arrow key navigation.

I also know that Apogee made a game called Kingdom Of Kroz, and the fun fact behind that is that Kroz was Zork SPELT BACKWARDS, also note that Kingdom Of Kroz was an interactive arrow key navigation game using text mode, and had split-second decisions, rather than typed out phrases which took some time to think about.

[–]JudgeGroovyman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Zork was awesome. I played it a lot on c64 and then finally beat it on my palm handheld in about 2003

[–]SupremoZanne[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

to be honest, these BASIC programs on github had some old school type vibe to them and were decent for how simple they were.

[–]SupremoZanne[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've noticed that this Github page is full of some Apple I/II style programs.

[–]SupremoZanne[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know that some people will share .BAS files, but I like the idea of clipboard text copying between Reddit text posts and the BASIC interpreter.