[Coco] Back to BASIC

[Steve Strowbridge]

Greetings Programs!

I have just finished recording and uploading chapter 13, of the Extended
Color BASIC book found on the archive, I'm kind of excited, because now we
move into graphics and sound, and things will become more more visual,
which is appealing to me.

I have the bug, I hope I don't find a cure, my goal is to be as closed to
finished with going through the chapters by CoCoFEST and start working on
Programs for my users shortly thereafter.

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Steve Strowbridge, aka
The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
http://ogsteviestrow.com
ogsteviestrow at gmail.com


On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 1:18 PM, James Ross <jrosslist at outlook.com> wrote:

> Steve Strowbridge wrote:
> > BASIC on the CoCo was my entry into computer programming ... <snip> ...
>
> Thanks for sharing Stevie – very interesting.
>
> My experience was somewhat similar.  However, I never got as far as
> completing a game in BASIC. After typing in BASIC programs from books and
> magazines, for I don’t know how long, I experimented quite a bit w/ gaming
> constructs like animation, scrolling ... etc.  It was not long until I knew
> I could not create an arcade quality game in BASIC and set out to learn
> Assembly Language. Alas, I never completed one.  In the process of learning
> Assembly Language, for years, I got bogged down with creating tools to make
> it easier to program in Assembly (and to disassemble other programs) on the
> CoCo, none of which I completed. :( -- A story for a different time. Then I
> had a stint w/ OS-9 on the CoCo3.  And I continued the obsession w/
> creating programming tools on that platform for a while. This was all
> before my PC days which started in 1992, around the time I quit
> using/playing w/ the CoCo.
>
> > -End of Line
> Master Control Program from Tron -- classic!!
>
> James
>
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