Tiny BASIC is a family of dialects of the BASIC programming language that can fit into 4 or fewer KBs of memory. Tiny BASIC was designed by Dennis Allison...
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an eccentric newspaper about computer games programmed in BASIC with the same name as the tiny nonprofit educational corporation that he had founded, People's...
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Li-Chen Wang (section Palo Alto Tiny BASIC)
(1935-2022) was an American computer engineer, best known for his Palo Alto Tiny BASIC for Intel 8080-based microcomputers. He was a member of the Homebrew Computer...
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Altair BASIC also led to early collaborative software development, for Tiny BASIC implementations in general and Palo Alto Tiny BASIC specifically. BASIC interpreters...
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1975. Due to the tiny main memory available on these machines, often 4 KB, a variety of Tiny BASIC dialects were also created. BASIC was available for...
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Line number (section BASIC)
line numbers for GOTO and GOSUB (go to subroutine, then return). Some Tiny BASIC implementations supported numeric expressions instead of constants, while...
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unincorporated community in the US Tiny Glacier, Wyoming, US Tiny BASIC, a dialect of the computer programming language BASIC Tiny Encryption Algorithm, in cryptography...
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WordBasic (pre-VBA) (MS Windows) Atari BASIC BBC BASIC Integer BASIC Locomotive BASIC An Open Letter to Hobbyists Tiny BASIC Sources differ in regard to the...
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Like Tiny BASIC, the BASIC interpreter for Casio BASIC restricts variable names to the letters A-Z with just one predefined array (in Casio BASIC, Z, as...
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An Open Letter to Hobbyists (section Altair BASIC)
Programming Language newsletter about the successful Tiny BASIC project. The goal was to create BASIC language interpreters for microprocessor based computers...
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License and Open Token Compensation License. Li-Chen Wang's Palo Alto Tiny BASIC for the Intel 8080 appeared in Dr. Dobb's Journal in May 1976. The listing...
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(number) 16-bit computing In Altar 4k BASIC (1975), Tiny BASIC Extended (1976), 6800 Tiny BASIC (1976), and MICRO BASIC 1.3 (1976). "Chapter 3: Numbers, Characters...
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supply Available software included: Tiny BASIC (integer BASIC interpreter) Text Editor Full BASIC (floating point BASIC interpreter using Reverse Polish...
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languages designed in this period (e.g., FOCAL-69, early BASICs such as Tiny BASIC, etc.). An unfortunate side effect of this, coupled with the early need...
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created some of the games included with it. RCA sold a $39 version of Tiny BASIC on an expansion board. A VIP II version was designed, bundling the VIP...
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for orbits, as well as a three-dimensional variant in 1979 written in Tiny BASIC. More modern recreations of the game for computers have been made as well...
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failed to deliver, he adapted Li-Chen Wang's public domain version of Tiny BASIC for the original prototype of the TRS-80 Model I. This required only 2 KB...
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game system, Fairchild Channel F). Li-Chen Wang, developer of Palo Alto Tiny Basic and graphics software for the Cromemco Dazzler, was a club member, and...
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Level I BASIC (TRS-80) – based on Tiny BASIC. TRS-80 Level II BASIC (Tandy / RadioShack TRS-80) – based on Microsoft BASIC TRS-80 Model 100 BASIC (TRS-80...
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specification for a microcomputer interpreter for the BASIC programming language which became known as Tiny Basic. Allison was urged to create the standard by...
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included an alphanumeric video display, and up to 12 kB of memory. A 4 kB Tiny BASIC could be run on this configuration. The first-ever commercial video game...
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are Family BASIC development componentry, or appear in premade Family BASIC games. Like Integer BASIC and Tiny BASIC, the Family BASIC interpreter only...
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model. Included operating systems and programs for the computer were Tiny BASIC and TECO. Byte magazine called the computer "an excellent teaching system...
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out of print for many years. Tiny BASIC, a version of BASIC offered by Tom Pittman, could be used to write small BASIC programs on the Elf that could...
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publication, which they named Dr. Dobb's Journal of Tiny BASIC Calisthenics and Orthodontia, dedicated to Tiny BASIC. The newsletter's title was changed to Dr....
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tic-tac-toe written in BASIC BASIC, a Tiny BASIC interpreter WozMon, a Woz Monitor rendition Loader, a feature to load vCPU or BASIC programs over the joystick...
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entry, keywords can be abbreviated using the pattern set by Palo Alto Tiny BASIC, by typing a period at any point in the word. So L. is expanded to LIST...
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popular approach to implementing early microcomputer software, including Tiny BASIC and adventure games, from one-off implementations such as Pyramid 2000...
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culture. The project to create Tiny BASIC was proposed in Bob Albrecht and Dennis Allison's Dr. Dobb's Journal of Tiny BASIC Calisthenics & Orthodontia,...
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