13 Sep
2015
13 Sep
'15
12:14 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck
Guzis
Sent: 13 September 2015 19:51
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
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Subject: Re: It's BASIC Week again!
On 09/13/2015 11:39 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
Isn't that a Retro Question ? I seem to remember it being asked about GFA basic ..
I know that this is for fun, and I don't need
either reddit gold nor
stickers, but the winners being chosen randomly seriously dampens my
enthusiasm for participating.
Well, participating in such an event for the fun of it might be interesting, but
to be perfectly frank, I don't know what one calls "BASIC" anymore.
Can you run "Visual BASIC" on, say, a
PDP-8?
I doubt it, but Visual Basic covers a multitude of sins. There was a VB for DOS .... and
6 versions for Windows before we switched to VB.NET
.. but the competition requires sprites so you would need something special... and I think
its DOS based on a PC ...
--Chuck
Dave