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Turds in AI Generated Art

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WolfMUD: World of Living Fantasy

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EndBASIC 0.10: Core language, evolved

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Show HN: Easylang – A browser-based first programming language

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ZX Spectrum BASIC programming (1983)

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A 23-byte “hello, world” program assembled with DEBUG.EXE in MS-DOS

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The lost ways of programming: Commodore 64 BASIC (2020)

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If Looks Could Kill

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Programming in 1987 versus Today

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Updating the most influential book of the BASIC era

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Game engines as an art form

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Wander (1974) – a lost mainframe game is found (2015)

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A talk with Walter Bright about Empire

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Why Hypercard had to die (2011)

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1982: The Hobbit

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ZZT: Epic’s First Game

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30 years later, QBasic is still the best

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The Lost Ways of Programming: Commodore 64 Basic

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Examining Windows 1.0 Hello.c

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New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 3: A Renaissance Is Nigh

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How Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun punished the computers of the day [video]

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Why Hypercard Had to Die (2011)

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Pete's QBASIC / QuickBasic Site

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The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic

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Zork and the Z-Machine: Bringing the Mainframe to 8-Bit Home Computers

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Zarf’s Interactive Fiction (2017)

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BATAS: 8086 assembler written in MSDOS batch

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How to Fit a Large Program into a Small Machine (1999)

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Serverless QBasic

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Exploring the BBC Micro:bit Software Stack and OS

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2017 Interactive Fiction Competition

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The DUNGEON (Zork I) source

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Eaten by a Grue: podcast on Infocom games, text adventures and interactive fiction

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Twenty years later I wrote a Tetris again

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30 years later, QBasic is still the best

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The Man Behind the Curtain: Commercial games with source code releases

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Classic Game Postmortem: Loom [video]

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Text-only video game shows how genre can be beautiful, innovative and complex

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The Infamous Windows “Hello World” Program

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The joy of text – the fall and rise of interactive fiction

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Lost Lessons from 8-Bit BASIC

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How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch

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Star Trek 1971 Text Game (2008)

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The SCUMM Diary: Stories behind one of the greatest game engines ever made

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The Making of Dwarf Fortress (2012)

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The best QBasic game ever?

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Forth Warrior: A Programming Puzzle Game

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Why Hypercard Had to Die

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The Making of Arduino

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Could Bill Gates write code?

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Damn you, Arduino...I have no free time for this.

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C: The Complete Nonsense

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Play the first ever text adventure game in your Linux terminal

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BASIC was not just a programming language

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Dorf Fort (2020)

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Does this 8088 code in the Leisure Suit Larry 2 game do anything?

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Source Code for Area 51 (2005) by Midway Studios Austin Found at Garage Sale

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Programming with DOS Debugger (2003)

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DOS game “F-15 Strike Eagle II” reverse engineering/reconstruction war stories

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40-Year old BASICA utility code for teaching

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The Sword of Kumdor

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From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction

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