robhagemans/hoard-of-gwbasic
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A collection of GW-BASIC code by various authors
5 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2025-02-15 · latest 2025-12-15
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…is full of details and tricks like that and some of it probably is useful for other BASICs as well. https://github.com/robhagemans/hoard-of-gwbasic
comment by 1313ed01 · 2025-12-15 · in Efficient Basic Coding for the ZX Spectrum (2020) -
…1991 BLUE Book is that BLOAD can be used to load a binary file straight to graphics card memory. https://github.com/robhagemans/hoard-of-gwbasic There was a site hosting the author's freeware utilities (now only on the web archive?), and…
comment by 1313ed01 · 2025-10-15 · in Printing Petscii Faster -
…interesting facts and fun low-level tricks for (GW-)BASIC programming. Available for download here: https://github.com/robhagemans/hoard-of-gwbasic Before reading that I never considered how primitive early BASICs were. There is a lot of…
comment by 3036e4 · 2025-10-01 · in Coding a new BASIC interpreter in 2025 to replace a slow one -
…of abstractions supporting all sorts of weird things, like we have to put up with this century. https://github.com/robhagemans/hoard-of-gwbasic
comment by 2mlWQbCK · 2025-03-27 · in Writing Programs with Ncurses -
Currently reading The BLUE Book About GW-BASIC and QuickBasic (Thomas C. McIntire, 1991, https://github.com/robhagemans/hoard-of-gwbasic ). It is full of fascinating and somewhat horrible advice. For rendering text-mode user interfaces the…
comment by 2mlWQbCK · 2025-02-15 · in Q2DOS – Quake 2 backported to MS-DOS