with what programming language do you started
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@SteveZX81 So there are dialects from basic or lets say there are different basic versions ?
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BASIC on the ZX Spectrum +2. Some time in the 80s. Although child me had no patience and gave up and just wanted to play the games instead. Didn't start coding again until I was at college then did Turbo Pascal.
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@spt-games Ok very cool
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BASIC on an RML380Z
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My first programming language was
DIV Games Studio. It was a programming language to create games in DOS. If I'm not mistaking, I got it for my 13th birthday :) -
Vic 20 BASIC. Way better than the one on C64.
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Simon’s Basic on the C64, I’m guessing around 1984...
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Applesoft BASIC running on an Apple IIGS.
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The version of BASIC on the TI-86 graphing calculator!
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Locomotive basic on cpc464 when I was 14 then moved to z80 assembler when I found out there were no sprites.
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Ah Div - some good thinking in there, was a good little system.
I started with basic on 48k Speccy, pootling about for a while before hammering Amos (and later Div). With Amos I was at an age I suddenly ‘got’ everything and it all fell into place. Never looked back. Nothings ever come close to those days until Fuze has come along. It’s that good, and has that much potential -
I liked that you had pixel perfect collision detection, that was really nice to use. Also, the way processes worked in DIV was brilliant in my opinion. I mean, the language is from 1997, but the language was basically designed for asynchronous programming from the ground up. It would have been perfect for modern day processors, if it had moved more along with it's time. Also the fact that it had a good debugger, was so helpful to build intuition with what happens in code.
Of course it had shortcomings too. I mean there were no float variables, that was quite a pain sometimes. And of course the technique was old from the start (256 colors, really old 3D modes, and mostly it stayed on DOS for way too long to keep any relevance for me).
But then, the fact that you where able to extend the programming language, by loading dll-files written in C++, that was just inspiring. I mean it made me learn a little C++ as a teenager already, I never needed to use that professionally, so much of that knowledge has faded. But that did give me a push to learn more about programming in general, and build an intuition about what happens in code early on. Those are not small things.
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@pianofire said in with what programming language do you started:
BASIC on an RML380Z
Ah, that 380Z was a thing of beauty. I used to love our "maths lessons" which consisted of "Miss, can we go and do stuff in the computer room?" followed by much playing of the test based adventure game. Can't say I ever did anything constructive on it. This is probably why I'm rubbish at maths :)
As to the original topic, I will have used all sorts of BASICs from ZX81 through Dragon32, Amstrad and QBasic. But I never really did anything proper with it until I programmed professionally in VBDos1 (which was the precursor to .NET)
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Started on scratch technically, for like a week. Moved to Game Maker, also for a week or so, then unity, maybe a day or two, and then I ended up on Construct 2. Been using it for years since. Honestly first real coding language is Fuze, and now I'm trying to learn Godot.
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ZZT-oop. I'm an American, and those "turn 'em on and program" micros were less common here (granted I did have a friend with a C64). So I didn't really program until Tim Sweeney made ZZT.
