Next Without For

Randy and Earl share the results of our listener survey on retro computer development, favorite languages, and more! News/Personal Projects AtariAge Forum post on CubeDot for Atari 8-bit systems -  https://forums.atariage.com/topic/387935-cubedot-fuji-do-fuji-poo-dr-love-and-total-recall/  15th Edition of BASIC 10 Liner Contest for 8-bit computers has started. The Deadline for submissions is Sunda...

Randy and Earl discuss the various options for modern programming on Atari 8-bit systems, including the Atari 400/800 and their successors! News/Personal Projects RP2040 Geek - https://www.waveshare.com/rp2040-geek.htm z80pack on Waveshare RP2040-GEEK/RP2350-GEEK - https://github.com/udo-munk/RP2xxx-GEEK-80 Comp. Sys. Sinclair Crap Games Competition - https://csscgc2025.blogspot.com/ Article about...

Randy and Earl cover the history of the BASIC programming language, including its origins, and the wide adoption of BASIC on 8-bit systems in the 1970s and 1980s! News BASIC 10-Liner Contest -  https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium Show Topic https://www.dartmouth.edu/basicfifty/   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxo9LVIgOiI   "Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer" b...

Randy and Earl talk about ugBASIC, and Randy interviews the author/creator! News BASIC 60th birthday!: https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/03/basic_60th_birthday_releases/ AMSCII-Compo:   https://logiker.com/AMSCII-Compo  (Amstrad CPC AMSCII) Show Topic ugBASIC main site: https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/ ugBASIC IDE: https://spotlessmind1975.itch.io/ugbasic-ide ugBASIC keywords: https://ugbasic.iwashe...

Randy and Earl explore programming of the CHIP-8 family of interpreters! News! No news this episode! Z88DK, C compiler and assembler for 8080, Z80, 8085 https://z88dk.org/site/ CHIP-8 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8 Joseph Weisbecker: http://www.cosmacelf.com/history/joseph-weisbecker.html Joseph Weisbecker's introduction of CHIP-8 in Byte Magazine, Dec. 1978 https://archive.org/de...

News! Atari BASIC AI training - https://discord.gg/WnEcxSvtS Nabu computer -  https://nabu.ca/ More Contests! Amiga Jam -  https://itch.io/jam/amigatooljam VisionBASIC Game Contest -  http://visionbasic.fun/ AMSTRAD ASCII Compo -  http://logiker.com/AMSCII-Compo BASIC implementations for iOS (iphone/iPad): BBC BASIC by Richard Russell - free -  https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/bbcbasic/id6444498023 C...

Randy and Earl continue the discussion of Assembly Language in this second episode of a two-parter. If you missed it, check out Show 009 for Part I!

In part I of this discussion on assembly language, Randy and Earl discuss what assembly language is, who invented it, how it works (generally), and why one might have chosen to use it back in the classic days of computing.  

Randy interviews Michal Taszycki, owner of 64 Bites! And, we talk about some more contests.

Earl and Randy talk about various retro computer programming contests, where participants can show off their creations for platforms from back in the day!

Randy and Earl talk about the SNOBOL programming language - history, specifics of the language, and how to play with it today!

Randy and Earl discuss programming for the TI 58 and 59 programmable calculators!

Randy and Earl talk about Turbo Rascal Syntax Error, and Randy has a chat with its creator.

Randy and I cover Fortran, the granddaddy of computer languages.

Randy Kindig joins Next Without For as a co-host, and the podcast reboots!

A look at Turbo Pascal 3 for CP/M - the last version of Turbo Pascal to be released on that classic operating system.

Show zero of Next Without For covers the dBase III Plus 1.1 database programming environment.