AUTHOR: Les Howarth & Cheryl Evans
PLATFORM: VIC-20 (24K expansion)
please find attached the results of my research into BASIC type-in listings
every program on this list has an associated:
- tape or floppy image
- a UTF-8 text file listing its code
- scans of the magazine listing
- a screenshot
did i say this already?
i have some really nice BASIC type-in listings now, and i'm going to record some videos explaining how they work!
gonna go with a 6502 + 6847 build to begin with.
32 column text mode is not as much as i am used to on the commodore 64, but i figure it is best to go with something simpler to refamiliarise myself with electronics.
the vic-20 and commodore 64 are what i know best, and their VIC- chips are, on reflection, just superb.
i want, ultimately, to be able to be able to make a kind of 'dream' 8 bit system for myself, i hope by making this first lil puter i will begin that process.
Having implemented Eliza 1.5 times, I am convinced: being a Rogerian therapist was a glass ceiling for it. Eliza's engine was simple regex-like tree rewriting. Which is a lot, but not enough. Not enough for "Mathematician" script Weisenbaum envisioned, for example—there's no math engine in Eliza.
Though it's fun to see the parallels between Modal and Eliza.