05 Nov 2008
Scripting In Commodore BASIC For Windows & Linux

But does it do PEEK and POKE? It's Open Source, so I may take it for a test rive and find out...

SomeoneGotMyNick writes "Someone more nostalgic than I am, and with a lot of time on their hands, had created a scripting language based on Commodore BASIC for Mac OS X. They recently finished a version that works on Windows and Linux. You can pass the text of a BASIC program as a parameter to the program. I found it odd that it took 1.8 MB of source code to compile to an interpreter that used to fit in 8K of ROM space. If this ever becomes popular, perhaps we'll see Obfuscated CBM BASIC contests." In a simliar vein, in the comments someone points out what is essentially an open source AmigaOS Classic.

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Sci-Fi Giant Michael Crichton Dies at 66

But my personal favorite was Eaters of the Dead, which became The Thirteenth Warrior upon translation to the silver screen.

I didn't agree with some of his politics, but he was a great writer: and intelligent, inquisitive storyteller of the first rank. He will be missed. RIP

The novelist who wrote Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain succumbs to cancer.

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