The BASIC programming language and how it ended up on the Sega Saturn | MVG

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  @MickeyMakoni · 6 years ago

  The PS2 had Yabasic in the Pal regions.<br><br>It was Sony&apos;s attempt to get a tax break in the PS2 by claiming it was a computer. The plan didn&apos;t work.<br><br>But it did have me coding at 7 years old.

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  @twocows360 · 6 years ago

  I learned to program on the old school TI-8x calculators in the mid 2000s. As janky as BASIC seems to me today, its role in introducing tons of people to programming is undeniable. Seriously transformational.

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  @den2k885 · 6 years ago

  Fun fact: until 2018 I worked in a company that makes automatic x-ray inspection machines on food&amp;beverage production lines. Half of the software was still written in VB6, the core of which was a direct porting from QBASIC.

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  @dantheindoorman · 6 years ago

  My first &quot;computer&quot; was a zx spectrum as a hand me down. I never understood how basic worked but one of my first gaming Achievements was typing out hangman from the manual and actually made it play

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  @the.internet · 6 years ago

  My first computer here in the UK was an Acorn Electron my dad brought home from work for me, I was 5. This would have been 1989/1990. I had stacks of manuals and cassettes with it and would acquire more BASIC programming books from bargain bins and libraries. Some of my happiest memories are copying out lines and lines of code from an &apos;Input&apos; book after choosing something to create, then when getting restless and hazy eyed asking my mother to help read out the code whilst I typed it in. Saving the whole thing to cassette tape, running the code and finding the inevitable typos and mistakes (some of which were from the books themselves, which meant learning how to recognise errors myself) then running the code and seeing what we&apos;d spent ages typing come to life. <br><br>It was a place in history for me where time didn&apos;t matter, I could just lose myself in a computer and games and my imagination. I miss those times like crazy.<br><br>Thanks so much for this vid - I&apos;m having an insanely nostalgic time in lockdown uncovering so much from my childhood (digitalising VHS tapes, going through boxes, you name it) and just yesterday I was in the attic and found my Acorn Electron and its cassette deck. <br><br>Nods to anyone who had similar memories in childhood!

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  @97mizuno · 6 years ago

  It&apos;s been a busy day, maybe I should go to sleep.<br><b>sees MVG</b><br>Sleep can wait.

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  @Asterra2 · 6 years ago

  I remember being 8 years old and typing programs into my Vic20, thinking that was how the device was used. &nbsp;You got a book of little games, and the only way to use those games was to type in this stuff. &nbsp;I clearly remember the day I realized that you could make things occur in perpetuity with a goto loop. &nbsp;Wrote a program that made a ball bounce around the screen. &nbsp;I suppose it&apos;s a bigger deal for an 8-year-old, and would have been less of a revelation had I been taught it or if the instruction manual had been written in a way as to teach such concepts.

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  @TanjoGalbi · 6 years ago

  I was a Net Yaroze owner at the time. We were given access to the official Sony developer forum on the internet where mainstream developers also frequented. We were able to submit our games to that forum and if Sony liked a game they would release it on the cover CD of the Playstation magazine for others without the Net Yaroze to play. That was our way of getting our games published if they were good enough. Many Net Yaroze owners went on to produce games for the upcoming PSP and PS2 machines. Not me though, for me it was only a bedroom hobby, I was already employed as a programmer in another sector of programming :)

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  @sepehrasadi5997 · 6 years ago

  When I heard the intro music of h0ffman<br><br><br><b>Demoscene intensifies</b>

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  @londospark · 6 years ago

  Does anyone remember the demo disc that came with the PS2 in the UK with &quot;Yabasic&quot; on it? I loved that!

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  @NathanChisholm041 · 6 years ago

  I don&apos;t own any old school computer nor do i desire to but i enjoy these for some reason!

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  @ScottWozniak · 6 years ago

  There&apos;s a whole host of shooters written for Game Basic that can be enjoyed if you have a Pseudo Saturn Kai cart. Some of them are quite good!

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