it is 2025 and i am manually typing a 446-line basic game from a book
@mavica_again i love this so much. what book is it?
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@beka_valentine Island of Secrets, published by Usborne in 1984, released for free on their website: https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books
@beka_valentine i decided to transcribe this on a whim because i've been thinking about BASIC a lot recently (i blame my restlessness waiting for my PicoCalc to ship) and absolutely this is giving me a lot of thoughts i want to put into a blog post
@mavica_again i hope to read it some day :)
@mavica_again ahhh thats so rad :)
i've written long threads about how this kind of approach to games and programs is a lost art that unintentionally promoted an extreme agency in the computer user