Played a few of the 2025 BASIC 10 liner competition winners with my girlfriend this evening.
It dawned on me that I have never actually touched a Commodore 64 before. Despite many hours coding in BASIC, I have only ever used an emulator.
There is probably a word for it in another language, but sometimes I long for a past that I will never be able to inhabit.
The competition entrants include code descriptions and comments, so I recommend downloading the "one big zip file" (~70MB) so you can have a really nice look through some clever code.
I enjoyed "sand-stormer", and another one whose name I cannot remember -- it was was the 3rd place in the 80 char line category 😅
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@vidak
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@vidak I have never used a Commodore 64.
Nope. I’ve only used a Commodore 128. :) Round about the end of the 1980s. It was a friend’s computer, a friend I was visiting.
@vidak Mind you, my own first computer was a 4K TRS-80. Before it was called ‘Model I’. And I’ve used Rockwell AIM-65, which was interesting, because it was so unreliable with the boards coming loose. And some thing with an LSI-11 in it. That was an interesting computer, the first 16-bit micro I used.
Someone was very happy because I implemented recursion for fig-FORTH on it for them. It was very easy for PDP-11.