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Sent: 13 September 2015 21:07
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Subject: Re: It's BASIC Week again!
On Sun, Sep 13, 2015, Dave G4UGM wrote:
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> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at
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> Chuck Guzis
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> Subject: Re: It's BASIC Week again!
>
> On 09/13/2015 11:39 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
>
> > 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.
Isn't that a Retro Question ? I seem to remember it being asked about GFA
basic ..
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 ...
It doesn't require sprites. It specifies that even character graphics would
work.
So it is possible it might work on a PDP-8. Might try it on my SBC6120. Not sure if that?s
true vintage...