🖥 Ardi's Graph

A port and mod of a program shared by Ardi Ardi with the "BASIC Programming Language" Facebook group via this post.

This program seems to have some history, with other versions floating around (called "halftone2" ?) over the years.  For example, here's a SpecBAS version by ZXDunny.  The original version of this program may have been authored by Uwe Grelken.

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🖥 Drapeau Acadien (Acadian flag)

Just a fun little workout for my old sponge ...

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📚 Goals/benefits of BASIC Anywhere Machine

A quick and dirty summary:

The ability to program in BASIC without installing any software (all you need is a modern standards-compliant web browser.)

• So, in regards to requirements: BAM is OS-agnostic and device-agnostic.

Put BAM where you want it and personalize it to any degree,

• Put it on the web to use it from any online device
• Store it locally to use it offline
• i.e. manage/store/use it in whatever way any TiddlyWiki can be managed/stored/used

The ability to share programs with an audience without any special requirements other than having a standards-compliant web browser.

• So, in regards to requirements: BAM is again OS-agnostic and device-agostic
• A shared program is small, as it is (via TW’s Transclusion prowess) exported as a single HTML file that contains only the BASIC program bound to the BASIC transpiler
• Example program: Keijzer Graph
• The small exported program can be emailed, can be put on a static web server, can be stored locally (for offline use), can be embedded in any other Web page (with iframe HTML elements)

Primary use cases:

• hobby programming (I.e. particularly for the children of the 70’s / 80’s and liked programming in BASIC on those home computers), whether you want to program in good old “unstructured” BASIC or “structured” BASIC, and whether or not you want to make use of some BAM-specific features
• teaching fundamental programming concepts/constructs/elements with a language (BASIC) that isn’t cluttered with annoying distractions
• creating self-contained “Web gadgets” in BASIC (because you either cannot stand the “usual suspect” programming languages for “Web gadgets”, or you could not be bothered to learn those other languages, or because you simply have a soft-spot for BASIC.)
• Example: Digital Clock

Constraints:

• BAM is not meant for “web-programming” (at most, you can create a small “Web gadget” that at most interacts with input from a user, but it will not interact with Web servers or anything outside of the BASIC program)
• BAM programs cannot interact with local file systems; however, a BAM program hosted in a TiddlyWiki instance can interact with that TiddlyWiki via local storage AND/OR parameters passed from TiddlyWiki to the BAM program (causing the BASIC program to restart via the TW refresh mechanism)

BAM is really useful for giving old BASIC programs (old-school BASIC games, for example) a new lease on life, and is really good for graphics programming (or any kind of program that does not deal with a local file system, I.e. using files for input and/or output.)

🖥 Keijzer Graph

This program is a port and mod of a PC-BASIC program by Richard Keijzer shared with the "BASIC Programming Language" Facebook group.

Although the PC-BASIC program worked in BAM as-is, I made some additions/changes to suit my fondness for animated creation of graphs and for random colours.

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🖥 Guillermo's Graph (Apple II BASIC to BAM port)

This program is a port (and very slight mod) of an Apple II program, shared by Guillermo Ibáñez with the "BASIC Programming Language" Facebook group (🔗 to post).

As always, these types of simple (yet very interesting) graphics from classic BASIC dialects are fun to get working with BAM for export as stand-alone programs that work in Web browsers.  What better way to give these old programs a new lease on life by making them easy to share with folk: people just need to have a modern Web browser.  The device doesn't matter, and the operating system does not matter, and no software (other than the web browser) is needed.

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🖥 Graphics to ASCII Graphics

This funny thought, from absolutely nowhere, grabbed me firmly by the jugular: how would I go about converting graphics created with graphics statements to ASCII graphics?

Here's how I decided to go about it:

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🖥 Fireworks

This program is a port and mod of an Apple II program by Lee Fastenau as shared on the APPLE II PROGRAMS website.

I am a sucker for the "old-school" charm of graphics programs created with BASIC dialects of the 70's and 80's.

This APPLE II program is a gem: simple code that does something interesting.  I find it a whole bunch of fun to take this kind of program and tweak it with some easy enhancements, the kind I wish had been available back in the late 70's and early 80's on my home computers.

BASIC Anywhere Machine program:

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