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BASIC,
an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, is a family of high-level programming languages, initially designed in 1963/1964 by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College 1 .
While early dialects worked in conjunction with a teletype command line interpreter, which could immediately interprete and print expressions, or run a program which lines were entered (or re-loaded from punch tape) with leading line numbers, later dialects were more sophisticated with respect to program structure, recursion, object-oriented and event-driven programming paradigms, and compiled executables.
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Basic Engines
There were a few didactic chess programs written in Basic, most notably a program by Dieter Steinwender published 1984 in Computerschach und Spiele 2 , Demoschach by Hans-Joachim Kraas and Günther Schrüfer 3 , and Minimax by Chrilly Donninger and Dieter Steinwender 4, which was later converted to WinBoard by Thomas McBurney 5.
Dialects
GFA BASIC
GFA BASIC is a BASIC variant originally developed for the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST and then later ported to Microsoft Windows. It looks a bit like Pascal.
Visual Basic
Visual Basic is a event-driven programming language with integrated development environment by from Microsoft for its Component Object Model (COM) programming model, first released in 1991.
Publications
- Michael McCann (1979). Basic Chess. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 12, pp. 48
- Craig A. Finseth (1980). Something is Missing (Implementing recursion and stacks in BASIC). The Best of Creative Computing Volume 3 » Recursion, Stack
- Rainer Bartel, Hans-Joachim Kraas, Günther Schrüfer (1985). Das große Computerschachbuch. Data Becker (German) from amazon.de 6
Forum Posts
- Chess in BASIC? by William H. Rogers, CCC, August 28, 1998 » Point Value
- qBASIC Chess program - from 1984 by Dieter Steinwender by Mike Byrne, CCC, February 23, 2003
Re: Another qBASIC Chess program -Dieter Steinwender (in english+comment by Tony Worsman, CCC, February 24, 2003
- Old chess program in BASIC (long post) by Walter Faxon, CCC, March 20, 2005
- GUI in Visual Basic by Edmund Moshammer, CCC, February 28, 2009 » GUI
- Call an engine from BASIC?! by Jens Bæk Nielsen, CCC, May 24, 2020
Re: Call an engine from BASIC?! by Tony Mokonen, CCC, May 27, 2020
External Links
Wikipedia
- BASIC
- List of BASIC dialects
- Altair BASIC
- Applesoft BASIC
- Atom Basic » Acorn Atom
- Basic4ppc
- BBC BASIC » BBC Micro 7
- Commodore BASIC
- Dartmouth BASIC
- FreeBASIC
- FutureBASIC
- GFA BASIC
- GLBasic
- GW-BASIC
- HP BASIC
- Locomotive BASIC
- Microsoft BASIC
- NS Basic
- PowerBASIC
- PureBasic
- QBasic
- QuickBASIC
- Sinclair BASIC
- Tiny BASIC
- Turbo Basic
- Visual Basic
HIARCS
- HIARCS 3 (0.3) Source code, 1981 from HIARCS: Where It All Began by Mark Uniacke 8
- HIARCS 5 (0.5) Source code, 1983 from Now Walking by Mark Uniacke
References
BASIC manual. Dartmouth College Computation center, 1964 (pdf)↩︎
qBASIC Chess program - from 1984 by Dieter Steinwender by Mike Byrne, CCC, February 23, 2003↩︎
Rainer Bartel, Hans-Joachim Kraas, Günther Schrüfer (1985). Das große Computerschachbuch. Data Becker (German)↩︎
Re: Another qBASIC Chess program -Dieter Steinwender (in english+comment by Tony Worsman, CCC, February 24, 2003↩︎
Dap Hartmann (1987). R. Bartel, H.J. Kraas and G. Schrüfer: Das grosse Computerschach-Buch. ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Review)↩︎
Free Chess Software Programs from HIARCS Chess Software for PC, Mac, Palm and Pocket PC↩︎