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BASIC Computer Games

Edited by David H. Ahl, published 1978

Also published as 101 BASIC Computer Games

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This review is from: BASIC Computer Games: Microcomputer Edition (Paperback)

A classic book on programming, this has helped many game designers start working over the past three and a half decades.

Unfortunately, the fact that the book is so old means it's written for an obsolete dialect of BASIC; Microsoft 8080 BASIC (MITS Altair BASIC, Rev. 4.0). As-is, this book is useless to modern programming. The only solution, of course, is to translate it from the obsolete dialect, to a newer dialect that's actually supported by modern computers. With any luck, doing so will help me (and you!) get a better understanding of the modern dialect-of-choice (FreeBasic, for me), as well as the features that dialect presents. Good luck!