Many years ago I was playing around with an Acorn Archimedes (RISC OS) anagram application. It wouldn't let me create anagrams of the programmer's name, William Tunstall-Pedoe.
It was called !Gravity on the Acorn Archimedes. It was written in BASIC (and possibly some assembler) and I remember it being a popular game at school to hack - change the number of planets, acceleration rate etc.
About three years ago I knocked up a quick BBC Basic program (RPCemu/RISCOS) to play around with some dithering algorithms; I ended up painting the results: https://flashasm.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/more-incredibly-sl...
I was thinking the same thing; my initial thoughts were Jeff Minter or James Hague, but Google is not showing anything relevant. It might simply be that a common first-time benchmark exercise for programmers moving from…
Supposing you could travel back in time and give your earlier self a book (or at least, a few sheets of paper) that described 'good programming' (e.g. using GOSUB, in this context) - would you do it? Would you have been…
Many years ago I was playing around with an Acorn Archimedes (RISC OS) anagram application. It wouldn't let me create anagrams of the programmer's name, William Tunstall-Pedoe.
It was called !Gravity on the Acorn Archimedes. It was written in BASIC (and possibly some assembler) and I remember it being a popular game at school to hack - change the number of planets, acceleration rate etc.
About three years ago I knocked up a quick BBC Basic program (RPCemu/RISCOS) to play around with some dithering algorithms; I ended up painting the results: https://flashasm.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/more-incredibly-sl...
I was thinking the same thing; my initial thoughts were Jeff Minter or James Hague, but Google is not showing anything relevant. It might simply be that a common first-time benchmark exercise for programmers moving from…
Supposing you could travel back in time and give your earlier self a book (or at least, a few sheets of paper) that described 'good programming' (e.g. using GOSUB, in this context) - would you do it? Would you have been…