10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
This simple oneliner in Commodore BASIC has become quite famous for its nice complex output:
For this year's #MARCHintosh I asked myself, why should only the 8-bitters have all the fun? Sure, the Mac promised to not ever bother users with all that cryptic commandline stuff. But hey, that has been long ago and I don't care anyway ;-)
So I dowloaded the BASIC interpreter I considered to be easiest to learn (Chipmunk Basic) and started coding - here's the result on a Mac Classic:
To be honest, this needed more than one line of code, but it is still nice. And look, there's some System ROM (?) content visible to the right of the graphics window ;-)
I wrote something up and also have the code for download on my Retro-Browser compatible web archive: https://archiv.sonnenmulde.at/MARCHintosh-2024/index.html
Enjoy!
This simple oneliner in Commodore BASIC has become quite famous for its nice complex output:
For this year's #MARCHintosh I asked myself, why should only the 8-bitters have all the fun? Sure, the Mac promised to not ever bother users with all that cryptic commandline stuff. But hey, that has been long ago and I don't care anyway ;-)
So I dowloaded the BASIC interpreter I considered to be easiest to learn (Chipmunk Basic) and started coding - here's the result on a Mac Classic:
To be honest, this needed more than one line of code, but it is still nice. And look, there's some System ROM (?) content visible to the right of the graphics window ;-)
I wrote something up and also have the code for download on my Retro-Browser compatible web archive: https://archiv.sonnenmulde.at/MARCHintosh-2024/index.html
Enjoy!
