[Coco] Programming in BASIC YouTube series

[John W. Linville]

MOAR CARTRIDGE GAMES!!!

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 09:55:38AM -0400, Steve Strowbridge wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback Stephen, this is something I've been wanting to do
> for a LONG time and will hopefully fulfill a life-long dream, I never left
> the minor leagues of BASIC and learned any real or serious languages.  I
> was quite fortunate that once I moved to the PC, Microsoft Quick Basic
> compiler allowed me to pick up with zero learning curve and create some
> pretty amazing PC software that compiled into a stand-alone EXE file.  This
> again kept my creative tank full, but was also so "good enough" that I
> didn't need to learn any other languages, and I eventually stopped playing
> with BASIC by the end of the 90's, and regret never going to "the next
> level" with lower-level languages.
> 
> Seeing how many projects in both hardware and software that are going on,
> I'm uber motivated to create a software project to bring to next year's
> fest.  The goal of this series was to first re-learn for myself, second to
> possibly teach someone who had no previous experience, and lastly, to
> create a game (or more).
> 
> I have now also set a challenge for myself to learn 6809 assembly after I
> complete this series (Which I will also document via YouTube), and,
> hopefully, have a "real" game that I can demo at CoCoFEST! next year,
> hopefully even getting it on a cartridge, but baby steps first :)
> 
> 
> Steve Strowbridge, aka
> The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
> http://ogsteviestrow.com
> ogsteviestrow at gmail.com
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Stephen H. Fischer <
> SFischer1 at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> > How about a series of URBANE programming.
> >
> > Maybe some use may occur.
> >
> > SHF
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steve Strowbridge" <ogsteviestrow at gmail.com>
> > To: "CoCo Mailing List" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 12:38 PM
> > Subject: [Coco] Programming in BASIC YouTube series
> >
> >
> > >I started a series on YouTube where I am going back through the process of
> > > re-leaning Color and Extended Color BASIC for the CoCo 1&2 to ultimately
> > > re-write a number of my BASIC games I created as a kid that I no longer
> > > have.
> > >
> > > Since I have to somewhat re-educate myself to the language, I thought
> > there
> > > may be at least 1 or 2 other people in the world who may find this
> > > interesting, so I decided to make it a chapter-by-chapter series, with
> > the
> > > season finale being the creation of a new BASIC game.
> > >
> > > The link to this series is:
> > > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDfh7JjQaSYA1fP5KwRiOwefFIIF1Alid
> > >
> > > If you already know BASIC, and lower languages like assembly and C, you
> > > aren't going to learn anything new here, but anybody who only dabbled in
> > > BASIC or perhaps never dug too deep in may find it to be of interest.
> > >
> > > I have added two more chapters today so I'm currently up to chapter 5, I
> > > hope to crank these out at a quicker pace, so hopefully a few chapters
> > per
> > > week will be the release schedule.
> > >
> > > Looking forward to hearing any feedback, and as soon as I'm done with
> > this,
> > > I'm going to jump into the deep end and start to learn 6809 assembly,
> > which
> > > I have zero previous experience with and document that as well.
> > >
> > >
> > > Steve Strowbridge, aka
> > > The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
> > > http://ogsteviestrow.com
> > > ogsteviestrow at gmail.com
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