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Article #623730Re: The birth of BASIC
From: AndyW
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 06:39
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 06:39
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On 05/06/2018 12:51, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jun 2018 08:26:10 GMT, Ahem A Rivet's Shot > <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: > >> On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 08:04:23 +0100 >> AndyW <An...@nojunqmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Even as far back as a game in BBC Basic in the 80s that used >>> recursion to handle the effects of a cell exploding in a board games >>> called 'Hexplosion'. The game was a diamond shaped board made up of >>> hexagons, >> >> Hexplode when I saw it - A friend of mine wrote it for the >> Spectrum, >> I'm not sure if he originated it or came across the game elsewhere, it >> was the first time I saw it. >> > > An interesting game I'd not come across before: there's a DOS version > here: > https://archive.org/details/HEXPLODE > "Creator Ray Jensen" Without exaggeration this game changed the way I thought about programming. I was a standard procedural BASIC / assembler programmer and programming this my way would have taken a lot of work and a lot of code. Once I had worked out what was happening it was a light bulb moment for me. Andy
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