A real, ASR- 3. 3 teletype. These units were used originally. Western Union to transmit telegrams. Later they became a. You can see them. For a budding computer hobbyist, it was the thing to have after you.

It had a keyboard, a printer that served for all. That fact usually brings yawns until you. Microsoft got their start, beginning with a couple. If you did your homework correctly, those lights did.

The beast was commanded to count on the lights. Military Dating Singels more. In binary of course.

Finally, the game . The object was to hit the switch under. Miss and you just created.

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Get all the lights out, and, well, you ran out of interesting. Obviously more has to happen. In short order, a lot happened. It. soon became known that if you bought a little extra memory, and an I/O. Microsoft Basic 1. The machine talks !

Those who were there know. It was time for a beer. That goddam box spoke to me in English. Now. I understand... The period of time for Classic Basic, as I define it was short, from.

For a brief time, and the last time for. You had Basic. Passed from hand to hand, copied without.

In fact, some of the microcomputer Basic games here are recodes of games. These elementary Basic programs are still perhaps the only collection. The media on which they were kept was either lost, destroyed. The magazines that published them. This made the game more interesting. Many of the games were reinvented over and over.

Lunar Lander had several. Artillery was also a popular.

Many early programs were inspiration for later, more complex. The gaming empire that became Quake started as a humble Apple computer. And of course, the ultimate irony is that. Microsoft Basic that ran many of these games started an empire of unimaginable. However, we live in Internet time, and the Internet. I would never have been able to find.

Within days I had a copy of it. The intent was to scan it in and OCR it (convert it automatically to. Unfortunately, the programs in the book had been. OCR it yielded nothing but garbage. However, I was able to obtain a collection.

CP/M users (probally for Microsoft. Basic- 8. 0). In this collection I found most. I also found that the games have been modified. Some of the modifications were useful, such.

Some were not so useful, such as printing control. First, I can verify that these. Second. the original author, David H. Ahl, did research back then as to .

Thus, hopefully. the programs are titled with the proper authors. I have the book, but I have not found. I am still. looking for the games, or a better OCR program to convert the book form to computer. The Creative Computing collection was received from helpful people on. Because the collection was restored from modified.

These are being corrected as I find them. In some cases, this results in errors that were in the. Occasionally, it was necessary to fix errors.

Basics will not allow. Some of these might have been printing.

Like NIM. Even Wins #2. Another version. Flip Flop. Change X's to O's. Football. Football simulation. Football #2. Another version. Fur Trader. Fur trading simulation.

Golf. Golf simulation. Gomoko. Oriental board game (GO). Guess. Guess the number. Gunner. Hit the target. Hammurabri. Kingdom simulation.

Hangman. Guess the word, or else.. Hello. Conversational (AI) simulator.

Hexapawn. Board game simulation. Hi- lo. Money guessing game. Hi I- QThe famous, very annoying, board game. Hockey. Hockey simulation.

Horserace. Horse racing simulation. Hurkle. Hunt the hurkle on a grid. Kinema. Answer a kinetics question.

King. Another kingdom simulation. Letter. Guess the letter. Life. Life simulation. Life For Two. Life as two player game. Literature Quiz. Child's book quiz. Love. Print in ? N.

Name. Does amusing things with your name. Nicomachus. Computer guesses what number you are thinking of (no, I'm not kidding). Nim. Move the stones game. Number. Guess the number (yes, again). One Check. Solitaire checkers. Orbit. Shoot a spaceship in orbit. Pizza. Deliver pizzas to a small town (I could not make this up).

Poetry. Yep, generate random poetry. Poker. The classic card game. Queen. Game on chessboard with queens only.

Reverse. Reverse a numbered list. Rock, Scissors, Paper. Yes, it is. Roulette. Roulette wheel simulator (leaves breaking both your legs up to your. Russian Roulette. Yes, that. Sick. Salvo. Battleship again.

Sine Wave. Draw sine waves. Slalom. Simulate skiing downhill. Slots. The one armed bandito. Splat. Parachute on various worlds of the solar system (a classic !!!).

Stars. Simulates the formation of stars from primordial material in the universe. Its another guess the number game !!!! Stock Market. Stock market simulation (leaves the house repossession to your imagination). Super Star Trek. Star Trek, The TV show.

Lots of tie games. Tic Tac Toe #2. Another version. Tower. Towers of Hanoi, a stacking puzzle. Train. Generate time- speed- distance problems. Trap. Yep! Another guess the number game ! Matches. Takeaway matches game.

War. The card game. Yes, it takes forever, how did you know ?

Weekday. Interesting facts about a date. Word. Guess the word ! Changes made to library from book form for GW- Basic and.

QBasic. After dealing with these programs for quite some time, I decided to wrap. These are the most popular in- use versions, and QBasic is (unfortunately). Microsoft Basic that can really run these programs. They fix tricks. that took advantage of quirks in the original Microsoft Basic. As a result. the new versions should run on all Microsoft Basic versions, including the original. There are a few (four at this writing) programs that were still found not. They simply required.

I have available at present. The versions in this library were tried (admittedly not extensively) and.

GW- Basic and QBasic. The original creative computer games from the book are in a separate library. I could manage. They'll remain that way for. Where can I get a basic to run these programs? What happened to original Microsoft Basic? All of the programs here are made to run on Microsoft Basic for microcomputers. Microsoft basic. The first versions of Microsoft Basic were loaded by paper tape, the Microsoft.

Basics. Later, Mbasic- 8. Microsoft Basic running under CP/M. All of these versions can still be run using. CP/M or Altair simulators. When the IBM- PC came out, Microsoft created BASICA, which was tied to the. IBM- PC roms, and cannot be run on modern machines, followed by GW- BASIC.

If you wish to simulate the original versions, see: http: //www. However, this is a non- trivial task for moderate to expert computer users.

It behaves as an extended version of those early Basics. Best of all. it is freely available, and still runs in a DOS box on the most advanced Windows.

XP, Vista) that are available. You can find it right here: GW- BASICYou can find an online manual for GW- BASIC at: http: //www. Note that there are still programs in the collection that will not run on. GW- BASIC, see the notes above. QBasic. The next version of Microsoft Basic was QBASIC, which . QBASIC is not . I have been able to run all of the programs in the collection on QBASIC. GW- BASIC and QBASIC does not affect them, aside from.

I have noted. You can download Qbasic, for free, from Microsoft: http: //download. Visual Basic is not. GW- Basic nor QBASIC.

It really isn't a traditional basic at. You will not be able to run these programs on Visual Basic without extreme. How about other Basics? There are lots of other. Basic implementations floating around the network, but you are going to find.

Basics was never a strong suit of the language. I am sure there is a Basic out there that is compatible with the original.

Basics. Unfortunately, that would take some work to find such. Basic. My searches on the Internet have mainly turned up a series of Basics. Basic. than in backward compatibility. This is one (of the many reasons) I don't personally.

Basic anymore. If you want to find such a Basic, I recommend you search for one that advertises. GW- BASIC or QBASIC. By the way, I tried BASCOM, which is a companion compiler to GW- BASIC, but. How this page got started. How did I get started collecting these programs ? The. first language processors I wrote, a compiler and an interpreter, were. Basic, back when most of my code was written in assembly language.

Writing such. a Basic in various languages has been a pastime for me, and is an important. Because the machines that ran my earlier Basics became obsolete, I decided. I wished to have a Basic implementation written in my chosen high. Pascal, and slowly grew a Basic implementation in my spare.

IP Basic today (this. Basic interpreter that I work on from time to time. It is not finished. I needed some test material to verify that it worked correctly. Well. Basics vary a lot, especially in the details of graphics and sound, so. I needed were some very simple programs that did not do any advanced.

I/O. It occurred to me that the old basic programs I used to play with. I first started using a computer 2. I set out to find some. After having a great difficulty finding more than a sparse few, it occurred. I placed the. results of my search up for general viewing and download, sort of a . In typical Internet fashion.

The ? Weeeellllllll.... I read it backwards. I later realized that. Instead, I learned. Micropolis. In fact, until 1.

I never owned a computer that. I designed or made, including the operating. On the other hand, because I worked for a disk drive maker, I never. I missed the . By then they were being sold cheap. I finally had the system everyone. The ASR- 3. 3 was a little to big to keep around.

I still have the 8. I hear they are valuable now, but to me, having. In fact, aside from the two notebook.

I own, I have never purchased a preassembled computer, because. I do is upgrade parts of my existing ones. I have three computers in. TCP/IP lan running the whole show.