gobasic

I wrote a simple BASIC interpreter based on happy memories of the speccy, but to be honest I have more fun these days writing toy projects in z80 assembly. I guess it's all about nostalgia either way though. The early experience in hacking games for infinite lives lead me to assembly, and z80 became x86. There was a lot in common removing anti-copying protection to getting infinite lives! Though modern games don't really appeal to me as much as Dizzy did, or the old-school fighting games. https://github.com/skx/gobasic https://github.com/skx/lighthouse-of-doom/

I wrote a BASIC interpreter in golang a few years back, and somehow the child really fell in love with the classic "guess the number" game: https://github.com/skx/gobasic/blob/master/examples/55-game.... I taught him how to divide the range in half to cut down on the number of guesses, and once he got the hang of that he was hooked. We played a couple of simple text-based games together after that, but most of the classics were too hard, too long, and required too much typing for him. So the game I made was deliberately simple. Even so the first time he played he had no idea that a rug could cover a trapdoor. That level of hiding things was too much for him to leap to himself, I had to direct him. These kinda shared activities don't replace his love of Minecraft, or Super Mario Bros (original NES version!), but I'm still glad we can do