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Article #623731Re: The birth of BASIC
From: AndyW
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 06:32
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 06:32
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On 05/06/2018 09:26, Ahem A Rivet's Shot 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. Hexplode. That's the name! I think that the original was the BBC version in PC Magazing in the early 80s, it was so simple to type in but so fun to play that it spawned ports on lots of platforms. Really enjoyable little game, I didn't have a BBC at the time (and my little Acorn Atom could not handle it) but I had a Speccy Pascal compiler and wrote a version for that. I also had White Lightning Forth but I never managed to get it to run properly on that. It was the first time I had ever seen recursion used for real and it made the code quite simple. Andy
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