How do you play games on a 47 year old computer? | Tiny BASIC Adventures

It's been a while! I'm trying not to kill my love for the hobby via Youtube demands, so I took my time enjoying this system while also filming it. I also filmed my newly acquired Mindset II and some other stuff in depth, so hopefully the resulting videos will come out a little faster. I'm working on finding more dg software for another round with my z80 in the future. Also, I made a commemorative dg t-shirt which is linked above for those interested. And again, I did my best to murder the 15khz CRT whine that annoys younger ears. I can't hear or see it on my spectrum analyzer so hopefully we're good there. Enjoy!

As the author (well, translator really) of the 68000 version of Tiny BASIC, I approve this video. Even though I haven't had time to watch it yet! 😆

Ah, Biorhythms. I remember it well. Back in the early 80s you'd still find program listings for this and I remember typing one in and me and my friend were horrified to see that apparently we were all going flatline in the year 2000. The joys of working with two digit dates...

Even taking into account the character resolution is ~32×16, the pixel resolution of whatever they're using to generate the display is surprisingly high!

Thanks for the history lesson. I'm a huge fan of Tiny Windows. I had no idea Tiny Basic was a thing.

If you noticed the descriptions of each tape in the sales flyer at 2:40 the games are almost all direct conversions from 101 BASIC Computer Games. Presumably this is the David Ahl book which can be found on the Web. It contains all the programs you tried and comes with detailed instructions for each of them.

A car parts store will sell plastic pry tools for auto body repair. I've found them useful for everything from opening boxes, prying apart non-car bits, and even scraping flat surfaces without risk of damaging surfaces or cutting myself. I'm sure others will have even better ideas but putting that out to assist. Great video!

Oh yes cheap glued cassettes without screws - but I was young and needed the money!😋

I had as my first computer, the TI 99 4A, 16K color. Hooked up to a color tv, it's own cassette recorder, all cables. Books. A Christmas gift from Mom, 1983. I took a "Computer Concepts" course and it had BASIC. The satellite center (nearby Pathfinder Regional Vocational H.S.) with my then, maternal grandmother, the high school had an IBM 360, blue. BASIC on both systems. I have to add that my entree into robots/computers was re-runs of "Lost In Space" 1965-68 version, beginning in 1978. WLVI(then) in Boston. I live in "West"ern Mass. RIP Mark Goddard "Major West"!

I still have my 1970s Dr Dobbs collection, together with my own annotations where I'd ported code like Palo Alto Tiny Basic onto my own hardware, and Steve Wosniak's floating point routines. These were great times, when you could still know, understand, and maintain everything from a basic program to component level.

18:05 "ERR 12 65535" - The error message pops up because the last command is not an END command. In Tiny Basic this is obligatory.

The nice thing about those old computers is that they mostly use a lot of still readily available TTL parts. It makes it easier to keep the old machines running.

Oh my God, Tiny Basic would bore me to tears !!!

I came for the tiny basic but stayed for the smooth jazz.

Digiguess is like wordle, but for numbers. Love seeing collections of old games like this. As you said it's a window into the time they came from.

no amount of nostalgia could get me to go back to typing in programs and trying to save and load them from cassette tapes.

I was 17 in 1977 when the TRS-80 came out and did game development for it in Z80 Assenbly and BASIC. I was aware of other hobby computers, but never heard of Digital Group! Thank you! I love this!

Thanks for sharing your experience

I enjoyed this video and of course your humor that comes out with each and every one of your videos. I look forward to seeing more ot the Digital Group series.

Hamurabi! I've only just learned about this from the latest Sumerian Game episode of the They Create Worlds podcast, nice to see an example of it from the 70s