Re: [OT]Retro computing
- Posted by jaygade Jun 25, 2013
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The original BASIC version of Trek would run on some machines like that -- it probably still required at least 8K of RAM I think. Maybe even 4K. I don't remember.
Do you know where that can be obtained from?
Google. http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc1/showpage.php?page=275 I've browsed Atari Archives before, lots of good 8-bit books. This particular link takes you to a Creative Computing article on Trek, with history and source code. Each page looks like it's both scanned in and converted to text (both on the same page).
I've downloaded a lot of these old books somewhere and thought to convert some of these classic BASIC games to Euphoria, but I've never gotten around to doing it.
I remember reading the Euphoria was originally developed on an Atari ST which is the next higher generation from this class of machines.
I wish this was available as well. Heh, I wonder if it was originally written in BASIC!
I don't think so! I think it was originally written in C and assembler before Rob Craig converted it to DOS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphoria_(programming_language)#History
Looks like the Wikipedia footnotes are broken, but those messages are probably here somewhere.
http://openeuphoria.org/forum/m/114081.wc
