I remember when the BASIC programming language came on all computers. Most people did little more than play with it, but many people started a lifelong interest in programming or even made money writing programs with it. Emergence BASIC is a modern attempt to recapture that “anyone can program time” with a modern Windows operating [...]
When I bought my first computer, text adventures like Colossal Cave and Zork were my favorite games. While “interactive fiction,” as modern text adventures are called, are no longer commercially viable in this age of games with film-like graphics (and budgets), a large number of free text adventures are published by fans every year — [...]
I can remember when every computer came with a copy of the BASIC programming language. Heck, my first computers (a VIC-20 then a C-64 then an Apple IIe) booted into BASIC. DOS and Windows 3.1 computers came with a powerful BASIC even though they, fortunately, did not boot into BASIC. Unfortunately, programming for all versions [...]
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Windows PowerShell (aka Monad) RC1 Now Available
Posted on Friday, May 12, 2006 at 8:47 PM by Randall
Windows has always shunned the command line while Unix-based OSes have embraced it. This has meant [...]