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Way back
in high school computer class, we took up BASIC programming. Here's
some of the stuff I came up with. All of it's really small, from a few
hundred bytes to maybe 30KB, so it should be a fast download.
(Note:
You need a BASIC interpreter to run these files. Here's
a copy of GWBASIC, if you don't have MS-BASICA with you.)
"Mang"
A very simple
program which asks for your name, then everytime you hit a key, prints
it on screen with the word "Mang" and an exclamation point.
We
did this to annoy one of our classmates, Arnold, who was sometimes called
"Mang Arnie." ("Mang" is a Filipino vernacular salutation
commonly used when referring to middle-aged to elderly men of the lower
income bracket.)
"Hyped"
I came up with this audio-visual sound effects routine on a whim. BASIC
prints different random numbers on screen while playing a note at the
frequency of each number. The process is repeated at machinegun pace,
so you get a sound
akin to a computer from a 1950's science fiction.
"Computer
Conversation Program"
Not quite Dr. Sbaitso. Rather than AI (artificial intelligence), it's
AS (artificial stupidity). You type to the computer, and it responds
with a random phrase. Does it depend on what you say? I don't know.
I just know it's
really fun. You can also save conversations and retrieve them later
on.
"Escape
from the Dungeon"
This was our final project in BASIC class. Our group made a text adventure
fantasy game, complete with magic, ogre battles, and fantasy-RPG clichés.
It's pretty much a roll-your-attributes-and-choose-the-number-of-your-choice
adventure, with a randomly generated ogre fight subroutine every now
and then. (Note: This one's in a WINZIP archive.)
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