• BASIC Computer Games is a compilation of type-in computer games in the BASIC programming language collected by David H. Ahl. Some of the games were written...
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    the original 101 BASIC games converted into the Microsoft dialect and published it from Creative Computing as BASIC Computer Games. This book, and its...
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  • video games began to shift away from mainframe computers or minicomputers, and the spread of general-purpose programming languages such as the BASIC programming...
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  • BASIC versions, in the People's Computer Company book What to Do After You Hit Return. Many of the original source listings in BASIC Computer Games and...
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    The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes...
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  • development, the game which would become Computer Space began development in this period. In computer games, BASIC games written by high school and college...
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  • for this game in his best selling BASIC Computer Games, and variants of the game spread widely to personal computer systems. Decwar in 1978 was also a...
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    a cross-platform subset of Microsoft BASIC by Creative Computing in 1979 for the book More BASIC Computer Games where it appears with multiple names:...
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    Star Trek (1971 video game) (category BASIC software)
    Cole to BASIC-PLUS and published the source code in the Digital Equipment Corporation Edu newsletter. It was republished with other computer games in his...
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  • BASIC. The original Lunar Landing Game was converted to BASIC by David H. Ahl, who included three versions in his 1973 book 101 BASIC Computer Games....
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