More basic computer games

By David H. Ahl

Contains 84 Games for Personal Computer & Television Screen Use This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0894801376
• ISBN13: 9780894801372
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The challenge is converting the game to a more recent language.

I kept two copies so I could wear one out. I never did manage to complete all 101 games. They were designed using Microsoft 8K Basic Rev. 4.0. David H. Ahl is the Founder of Creative Computing. Playing Star Trek(TM) game on a TRS-80 got me mesmerized for hours on end. However, with a little tweaking, BASIC still does just fine with various alterations for different computers. One advantage of BASIC is peek and poke, which allows you to get down to the machine level and use vectors. Vector is a strange word; it mostly means a pointing direction. In computing, it is a point that points to a different point. I learned the hard way in the military that a vector is a disease-carrying insect that can be used on an enemy

Great book for game ideas

This is a great book to mine for ideas on creating simple text-based computer games. It is the book that inspired me to become a programmer many, many, years ago.