coding-horror/basic-computer-games
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An updated version of the classic "Basic Computer Games" book, with well-written examples in a variety of common MEMORY SAFE, SCRIPTING programming languages. See https://coding-horror.github.io/basic-computer-games/
14 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 3 stories, 11 comments · first 2021-02-19 · latest 2026-06-21
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…short order of many of the conversions with very little tokens however that was never the point. https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games
comment by firesteelrain · 2026-06-21 · in David Ahl's Basic Computer Games Ported to C -
…to rewrite the games from the book Basic computer games in modern languages. The word game is here: https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games/tree/m...
comment by nopakos · 2025-11-07 · in 1973 implementation of Wordle was published by DEC (2022) -
…lot too and people have converted the basic games into multiple languages over the last few years. https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games
comment by firesteelrain · 2025-10-12 · in Show HN: I extracted BASIC listings for Tim Hartnell's 1986 book -
…original BASIC games in modern programming languages. It has been going on for a few years now. https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games anyone can contribute and issue a pull request for the targeted language
comment by firesteelrain · 2025-04-23 · in 101 BASIC Computer Games -
…ended up writing about the deduction logic for solving mastermind because it seemed non-intuitive. https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games/blob/m...
comment by jnellis · 2024-01-13 · in How to solve the "Mastermind" guessing game? (2009) -
This is exactly that. % git clone https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games.git Cloning into 'basic-computer-games'... remote: Enumerating objects: 23002, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (1191/1191), done. remote:…
comment by eesmith · 2023-07-31 · in “BASIC Computer Games” code in modern languages -
Your list omits BASIC, much of which looked like this: https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games/blob/m...
comment by marssaxman · 2022-09-15 · in Ask HN: How much do you use uppercase vs. lowercase characters in your code? -
…and likely more. Another is a translation of BASIC code to Rust, using break as a form of goto. https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games/blob/e... . The Python version at https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games/bl…
comment by eesmith · 2022-09-04 · in Python multi-level break and continue -
…into modern languages. It includes Hammurabi, if you'd like to experience it on a modern system: https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games/tree/m... This was previously discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26188324
comment by El_RIDO · 2022-02-03 · in The Sumerian Game -
…Machine 7 Billion Humans Also my kids and I whiteboarded out and then coded a few of the games from https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games It was fun acting as the game designer who wanted this feature or that!
comment by kthejoker2 · 2022-01-29 · in Citizen developers are rapidly becoming the vanguard of corporate digitisation -
…but keep the complexity extremely low, like 70's BASIC was intended. EDIT: Just looked at https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games/blob/m... , it actually looks like a pretty good blend of original but with mild improvements.
comment by fuball63 · 2021-02-28 · in Updating “101 Basic Computer Games” for 2021