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Basic games mainly from publications, coverted to quick/free basic and then BBC basic Chosen as I found then interest and fun to play located the publications on the web in pdf OCRed the page images into Geany as IDE for compiler

Free old school Freebasic compiler for quick basic / gwbasic code: https://www.freebasic.net/

Blackjack.bas de minimis changes to compile in freebasic - from 101 computer games Blackjack2.bas refactor to modular code WIP -runs interesting logic to simulate a pack of cards and handle blackjack rules Economy.bas UK macro economy simulator listing from Practical Computing July 1983 WIP - runs Program flow tidyup, UI tidy, score added, data fixes, program logic is simple Interesting Keynesian style macro from early 80's, covers 5 years of first Thatcher govt. Uses money supply to control interest rate, persistent auto-regressiove inflation with philips style unemployment/inflation tradeoff No limits to govt borrowing or Money supply, exchange rate exogenous Highlights whether a recession to tame inflation, instead of just booming the economy and letting inflation go, as the right tradeoff petadv.bas Pet Adventure from Personal Computer World DEc 1981 WIP - runs, some procs missing Conversion of a fun little program packed into an 8k commodore pet basic programme Convert byte storage into array variables, simplify logic to use arrays, program flow complete rewrite, load & run programs combined Fixed some design compromises due to 8k limit, damage calculation tweaked for gameplay seab2.bas Seabattle from 101 Computer Games refactoring to modularise WIP runs needs UI work thehouse.bas Original Sharp basic OCR from Your Computer Jan 1982 p30 Needs OCR flub fixes & syntax fixes to work in quick basic / gwbasic

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