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Back to my personal theme for 10-liner entries — classic BASIC algorithms. It’s hard to get more classic than Conway’s Game of Life. This simple game/simulation was covered so times from many perspectives in Byte Magazine, Creative Computing, and so on. I used the algorithm as described by Mark D....
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My third grade teacher hated me and told my mom that I would grow up to be a serial killer. (This turned out to be inaccurate.) She also taught me the dice game “Pig.” In our class, the teacher would roll two dice again and again. Students would add each dice roll to their score, and could quit at...
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I love the BASIC 10-Liner contest! I didn’t find the time/energy/whatever to enter in 2018, so am excited to write some short BASIC programs for this year’s contest. First out of the gate is Floody Bot. This will be an entry for the EXTREME-256 category.My soft overarching theme for entries this...
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Hello, it’s 2019, which means it’s time to look back on the computer history efforts that I made last year.In 2018 I finished managing the Ted Nelson’s Junk Mail scan project. Recap: from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s, computing pioneer Ted Nelson collected catalogs, flyers, brochures, spec...
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My goal for 2017 was to interview 50 people for ANTIC: The Atari 8-Bit Podcast. (That goal was a significant reduction from 2016, where I interviewed 146 people. I don’t know what sort of caffeine-fueled, adderall-enhanced cocaine I was on that year, but that was a crazy number of interviews to...