@vidak

Let's hope that one day the game will grow to the point where we can tell whole stories about it 😉

https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2012/12/nethack-great-heist.html

@mdhughes @screwtape i've always wanted to make an issue or two of a sweet BASIC listing compilation for the community--doubtless the last 30 years have seen some amazing new BASIC games created

@mdhughes @screwtape ah, i think you may have misunderstood what is meant to be happening in the game, quite a bit of it cannot be generated from constants, it is a sandbox game

these code listings are incredible though, i am going to study them very closely to see what gems they hold!

@mdhughes @screwtape perhaps it does not matter, but it would be a great deal simpler to me to have the names of the variables directly exposed to the player

this may cheapen the game a little, but i do understand what you're saying regarding:

10 DIM A(11)
20 LET A(1) = "BAG NAME #1"
30 FOR I=2 TO 11:LET A(I)=".":NEXT I

@screwtape @vidak Yeah, Thomas Kurtz; John Kemeny died back in '92.

But BASIC will live forever.

@screwtape i am attempting to answer the question of whether it would be better to use arrays of undefined type, or variables of string type to store maybe... 20 or so player objects

I pushed out a minor CSS/HTML fix to the death generator. It's now got a dark mode! It inherits it from your browser, so if your browser is set to dark mode (or your OS is, and your browser is respecting that), you'll get a darkmode Death Generator.

https://deathgenerator.com/

Viz the discussion of #memory and #programming and memories of Richard C. Waters' memory and programming,
I adopted Waters' #MIT #AI Memo on #Series for lispmoo2 (#MOO DSL in lisp).
https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/lispmoo2/devlog/835106/richard-waters-series-and-lispmoo2
#itch_io

I used it to solve #fizzbuzz in my first lazy experience ever. It's about 10% better than me using the loop facility. #lispGames #lisp #commonLisp

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6035/AIM-1082.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y

the GBA stores sprite rotation HOW?

I cannot say this is the easiest thing I have ever written. #lisp
(defun fizzbuzz-of (x)
(let* ((nos (scan-range))
(fizz-src (series 'fizz))
(buzz-src (series 'buzz))
(by3s (scan-range :from 0 :by 3))
(by5s (Scan-range :from 0 :by 5))
(fizzes (mask by3s))
(buzzes (mask by5s))
(fizz/buzzes (#Mlist (#Mand fizzes fizz-src)
(#Mand buzzes buzz-src))))
(or (collect (choose-if #'identity
(scan (collect-nth x fizz/buzzes))))
(list (collect-nth x nos)))))

tbh I trust a plaintext file hosted on some random university user page much more than a random github gist despite them being somewhat analogous

centrism is the most cringe of them all

at least be 100% anti-nazi, you loser

Here is my latest #book: "Write Your Own Programs" is a fun but no-nonsense introduction to #programming. It discusses programs of increasing size an complexity while inviting the reader to come up with their own solutions. The text starts with simple examples and then slowly picks up the pace until it arrives at a text mode video game and a WordStar-like text editor.
Want to start programming or get past the first steps? This might be the right book for you!
#retrocomputing