"Basic Computer Games", rewritten in multiple programming languages

Programming@programming.dev – 263 points – 1 years ago

GitHub - coding-horror/basic-computer-games: An updated version of the classic "Basic Computer Games" book, with well-written examples in a variety of common MEMORY SAFE, SCRIPTING programming languages. See https://coding-horror.github.io/basic-computer-games/

Saw this on Hacker News; it's an ongoing compendium of classic BASIC games, rewritten in up to 10 accepted programming languages; as well as space for "alternative" languages.

This looks incredibly cool and fun. Would be interested trying to re-write some of the games myself when I have some free time.

Said every developer.

It has only been about 44 years. I expect to have some time next week.

Same. Should be able to get it done in two to three weeks. This time for sure maybe

I'll set aside a couple hours this weekend to knock out a couple.

Indeed... :|

I did this with a BASIC game called Wizard's Castle that I played a lot of as a kid. The first step was to "reverse engineer" the manually-compressed BASIC code and write up a spec. Then I rewrote it in Rust as a learning exercise. 🙂

https://github.com/beejjorgensen/Wizards-Castle-Info

Holy shit, I used to own this book.

Why would anyone want to change from BASIC?