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"Basic Computer Games", rewritten in multiple programming languages

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/

https://github.com/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.gi...

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.

9 comments

pnutzh4x0r

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

dovah

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Said every developer.

floofloof

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

Aurenkin

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

evatronic

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

pnutzh4x0r

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Indeed... :|

beejjorgensen

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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

TheBananaKing

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Holy shit, I used to own this book.

sj_zero

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Why would anyone want to change from BASIC?

TheBananaKing

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Holy shit, I used to own this book.