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Pedro J. Hdez<p>La carta que publicó Bill Gates rogando a los usuarios que dejase de pasarse copias del Altair BASIC que había desarrollado demuestra el cinismo del pesonaje de aquella época.</p><p>Decía en la carta que habían utilizado 40 000 dólares de tiempo de ordenador para programar, pero lo cierto es que Gates se hizo con las contraseñas del mainframe PDP-10 de Harvard y lo utilizó sin abonar un dolar a costa de los contribuyentes estadounidenses.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_</span><span class="invisible">Letter_to_Hobbyists</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BillGates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BillGates</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Altair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Altair</span></a></p>
AG Spiele<p>Tha »AG Spiele« plans a two-day online workshop on analyzing <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/game" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>game</span></a> codes from <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/C64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>C64</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>games</span></a> of the 1980s with methods and tools from the <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/DigitalHumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalHumanities</span></a>. </p><p>If you are interested to join leave a short comment here and vote for preferred dates:</p><p><a href="https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/SEkpYQEyranz7cID" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nuudel.digitalcourage.de/SEkpY</span><span class="invisible">QEyranz7cID</span></a></p>
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄<p>Little but important stuff.</p><p>DIR columnates output, in case I write 60+ programs.</p><p>REDIR works so it really is a menu front end. With the font specified, bitmaps sorta work (it overlaps a little, I'll probably need to intercept &amp; draw real bitmaps).</p><p>Fixed a couple stupid little bugs (probably less parse errors locking up the page).</p><p><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/cyberhole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyberhole</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄<p>Forgot to attach:<br><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/cyberhole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyberhole</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> </p><p>I still need to adjust the "tractor feed paper" to be the exact font size &amp; maybe make holes with CSS? The sound is horrible but it's pass 1, as noted I'll probably get a sample.</p>
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄<p>Latest addition to</p><p>THE CYBER HOLE<br><a href="https://cyberhole.online/basic/basic.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cyberhole.online/basic/basic.h</span><span class="invisible">tml</span></a></p><p>is a (virtual) line printer!</p><p>LLIST your program to paper, LPRINT funny messages or pictures of Snoopy, and copy them out with a single button. Tear Off to remove the old "paper". It's so easy!</p><p><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/cyberhole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyberhole</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄<p>Added a tutorial to TinyBasicWeb</p><p>ON THE CYBER HOLE<br><a href="https://cyberhole.online/basic/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">cyberhole.online/basic/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/cyberhole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyberhole</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> </p><p>I'll start doing some real work with this in a minute. Just easier to bug-fix and docs first. Have a couple thoughts about getting program output in a period-appropriate way: LINE PRINTER!</p>
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄<p>You can now paste directly into BASIC with your usual ⌘V or ^V on</p><p>THE CYBER HOLE<br><a href="https://cyberhole.online/basic/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">cyberhole.online/basic/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>63 ASCII char lines max, please.</p><p>However copy only dumps text into console, because it's impossible to predict what'll be hard or easy in JS. Paste looks like more of a security problem! But copy is locked down! I'm gonna try stupid hidden element tricks tomorrow but I've got the post-coffee jitters now and shouldnae code any longer.</p><p><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/cyberhole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyberhole</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/javascript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>javascript</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/wat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wat</span></a></p>
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄<p>Almost literally hit ENTER and it's finished.</p><p>Before tonight, if you ran this it'd get from 99 to 80s, then slow to a dead crawl at the end of the lines.<br><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/cyberhole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyberhole</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄<p>I've been working on optimizing Terminal performance, it used to REALLY lag out on long text printing across lines or scrolling.</p><p>Not now! It's too fast to measure! Tho I lost the pulsing cursor, but even if I put that back it'll still be drawing at native speed.</p><p>I don't want to write a buffer to make it slow down to some terminal speed, but I kinda ought to. Or add a PAUSE command so you can make fake slowdown.</p><p>Also maybe text aligned better on non-Safari?<br><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/cyberhole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyberhole</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Gothic Card (Robert G)<p>Can someone release a new Sinclair ZX80/81. In stead of tape, us SD card, and have HDMI connection.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Sinclair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sinclair</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/zx80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zx80</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/zx81" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zx81</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/sinclairbasic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sinclairbasic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/basicprogramming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basicprogramming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/LoveThe80s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LoveThe80s</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Exploring the TRS-80’s Color BASIC’s Random Number Function - Although these days we get to tap into many sources of entropy to give a pretty go... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/exploring-the-trs-80s-color-basics-random-number-function/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/08/08/explor</span><span class="invisible">ing-the-trs-80s-color-basics-random-number-function/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/reverseengineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reverseengineering</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/pseudorandom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pseudorandom</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/trs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trs</span></a>-80 <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a></p>
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄<p>It's possible in L2 of Tiny BASIC I might add a strcmp() function that is case-sensitive, or language collating. For casual uses, like menu choices, case-insensitive is always preferable.<br><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄<p>TinyBasicWeb: Implemented string comparison, and fixed some input bugs. It's more usable now!</p><p><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/cyberhole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyberhole</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
YRabbit<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.solarpunk.au/users/vidak" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>vidak</span></a></span> <br>Two <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ch32v003" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ch32v003</span></a> (~$1) and you have a Spectrum-style computer😉 <br> However, programming will take much longer (the author estimates approximately one year).</p><p>The author already had experience with <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> bios on another microcontroller: <a href="https://www.breatharian.eu/hw/atx80/index_en.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">breatharian.eu/hw/atx80/index_</span><span class="invisible">en.html</span></a></p><p>CPUs <a href="https://aliexpress.com/item/1005006991847095.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aliexpress.com/item/1005006991</span><span class="invisible">847095.html</span></a></p>
Scott Williams 🐧<p>BASIC works. If I can find a dang DB-25 cable, we can see how the floppy disks fare. Hoping I can source some Oregon Trail for this thing.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>1985</p><p>“BASIC was a fine tool to learn programming with. But <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/programs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programs</span></a> in it occupied far too much of the limited working <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/memory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>memory</span></a> of a <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/microcomputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microcomputer</span></a>, and it was horribly slow. </p><p>The way to get anything ambitious done was to write the program directly in the language <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> translated into: <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/assembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assembly</span></a> code, only one layer up from the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/silicon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>silicon</span></a>. </p><p>Suddenly, you were responsible for the entire flow of very simple commands that allowed the computer to function.”</p><p>40 years ago, Elite was created and released by <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/IanBell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IanBell</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/DavidBraben" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DavidBraben</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Software</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Elite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elite</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Cambridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cambridge</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/computing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computing</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BBCMicro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BBCMicro</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/18/features.weekend" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/books/2003/oct</span><span class="invisible">/18/features.weekend</span></a>&gt;</p>
IT News<p>A Proper Computer For a Dollar? - When a tipster came to us with the line “One dollar BASIC computer”, it intrigued ... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/08/01/a-proper-computer-for-a-dollar/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/08/01/a-prop</span><span class="invisible">er-computer-for-a-dollar/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/computerhacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computerhacks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/tinybasic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tinybasic</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/ch32" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ch32</span></a></p>
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄<p>Tiny afternoon update, added hurkle.bas so you can now<br>CHASE THE HURKLE<br>in the<br>CYBER HOLE<br>!!!<br><a href="https://cyberhole.online/basic/?run=hurkle.bas" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cyberhole.online/basic/?run=hu</span><span class="invisible">rkle.bas</span></a></p><p>(yes, you can autorun a program from the URL!)</p><p>Which was very productive for finding a couple bugs/issues, but 98% worked as designed.</p><p><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/cyberhole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyberhole</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄<p>IT IS DONE! All functionality of TinyBasicWeb Level 1 works!</p><p><a href="https://cyberhole.online/basic/basic.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cyberhole.online/basic/basic.h</span><span class="invisible">tml</span></a><br>DIR ""<br>to see sample programs,<br>RUN "whatever"<br>to load &amp; run.</p><p>You can make simple INPUT-based games!</p><p>There's no arrays yet, so don't get too hype, but for a lot of "prompt and show a thing" programs, it's good enough.</p><p>I have some network-related things to do next, so I can start using it for a general-purpose forms UI.</p><p><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/cyberhole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyberhole</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
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