If you grew up in the 8-bit microcomputer era, you may be familiar with David Ahl's 101 BASIC Computer Games, which provided type-in BASIC program listings for an enormous set of games taken from the pages of Creative Computing.
It was true then and it's true now: one of the best ways to learn programming is to extend and modify simple game programs!
Now, interpreted BASIC is not exactly a hot commodity these days, so this project provides a Python version of each game that mimicks the functionality of the original quite closely -- with the addition of color, upper/lowercase, and some improvements to output.
What's that? You miss the old BASIC code? That's not included here, but I do
happen to be working on a Microsoft-compatible BASIC interpreter in pure
Python, which will be capable of running the code directly. Please contact me
at meiss.mark at gmail.com to learn more about the project status.
termandcommonmodules rewritten with better APIs.- Completed and tested games:
- Acey-Ducey
- Amazing
- Animal
- Awari
- Bagels
- Banner
- Basketball
- Batnum
- Battle