vidak / is on Nostr

# LOCATION

The unceded, stolen land of the Wadjuk people of the Nyoongar nation. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land!!

# QUOTATIONS

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~winnie-the-pooh

# MAIN INFO

(current operating system) emacs
(code) https://git.sr.ht/~vidak/
(blog) https://vidak.substack.com
(peertube) https://diode.zone/a/vidak/video-channels

# SMOLNET

(main) gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/1/~vidak

# CONTACT ME

(matrix) @vidak:matrix.solarpunk.au

Last Notes

2024-11-21 05:27:04

lil BASIC listing ~
for the zx spectrum!
https://social.solarpunk.au/media/3f2116d0991ddf0dada02fadbaa890e30a65e5860b46564cd552a27bf5df4497.png
https://social.solarpunk.au/media/652c1f2ef02c3e5fb80bbce59c432db0b282c447418c8a4f6c63663de7a55ac6.png

2024-11-21 03:41:41

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@nprofile…l9v9 @nprofile…dgph @nprofile…3e0r just at work rn, i have been following along! very impressive work!!
i have been thinking of adapting this to 8 bit commodore LOGO

2024-11-21 03:33:57

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@nprofile…l9v9 @nprofile…3e0r i am confused why are you looking at me?

2024-11-17 19:38:25

BASIC is a joyful little language!
my first coding book saw me attempting to input commodore BASIC V2 into microsoft QBASIC for MS-DOS 6.22, at age 9.
i am so glad i managed to return to now free commodore emulators like VICE, the simplicity of BASIC makes it highly composable.
writing a new game manages to balance nostalgia with "replayability".

2024-11-17 10:25:54

i love getting hell jank with my commodore 64 colour statements
like yes, spittin' rhymes here:
PRINT CHR$(154);"STRING";PRINT CHR$(158);"JUST BEAUTIFUL"

2024-11-17 08:46:45

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@nprofile…de2h @nprofile…l9v9 ah, i think you may have misunderstood what is meant to be happening in the game, quite a bit of it cannot be generated from constants, it is a sandbox game
these code listings are incredible though, i am going to study them very closely to see what gems they hold!

2024-11-17 08:24:13

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@nprofile…de2h @nprofile…l9v9 perhaps it does not matter, but it would be a great deal simpler to me to have the names of the variables directly exposed to the player
this may cheapen the game a little, but i do understand what you're saying regarding:
10 DIM A(11)
20 LET A(1) = "BAG NAME #1"
30 FOR I=2 TO 11:LET A(I)=".":NEXT I

2024-11-17 08:14:14

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@nprofile…l9v9 i am attempting to answer the question of whether it would be better to use arrays of undefined type, or variables of string type to store maybe... 20 or so player objects

2024-11-17 08:11:56

getting deep into the memory map of commodore BASIC 2.0
https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2020/commodore-basic-variables

2024-11-15 11:40:24

okay i gotta think of how i will model these data structures of bags in C64 BASIC...
... strings. i will use strings.

2024-09-11 15:02:47

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does anyone have a primer on CLIM?
i know @npub19y8…wxgj has been doing a lot of work on this front--?

2024-09-11 15:01:50

been looking at this
https://github.com/knusbaum/clim-gopher

2024-09-10 07:32:35

rust is bad
golang is bad
python is bad
ruby is bad
c++ is bad
c is bad
there, i said it. someone had to say it. we're all thinking it.
everything except lisp is bad.
😇

2024-09-07 04:21:21

worked some more on the common lisp tamagotchi this morning