Commodore Basic (128) programming graphic

Illustration made with emulator of the Commodore 128 (Basic 7.0 language), the first time I returned to work after 17 years! For young people may seem a trivial thing, but behind there is all the history of computing!

Illustrazione realizzata con un emulatore di commodore 128 (linguaggio basic), la prima volta che torno a lavorarci dopo 17 anni! Ai giovani può sembrare una cosa stupida, ma dietro c'è tutta la storia dell'informatica!
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[fritske88]

am i wrong or does 128 basic looks alot difrent then 64 basic?

[LazarusExMortis]

@fritske88

128 Basic is an operating system more advanced than 64 Basic, but I haven't used a lot for 64

[Discofelsi]

I have the same at home. Still works but my floppy disk drive is broken. It must be a lot of work to do that! I've made graphics too but takes a lot of time. Have you games too? I have Night Rider, Kaverns of Kafka, Olympics 88, Head over Heels, Cross Country Race USA and Cauldron 2 (The pumkin strikes back).

[LazarusExMortis]

Yes, actually it's very long to do.

My original C128 is missing long time, now uses an emulator.

[zenmonk9003]

@fritske88 Basic 7.0 was very powerfull in it's day. Could use a Sprite editor to create simple movable objects on top of your programmed graphic background. My Dad still talks about the games I made and how I should have gotten into game programming. I never thought my games were as good as the ones you could buy but I guess he liked them (maybe just because I made them). He still talks about some graphic art I did of the Starship Enterprise and a Klingon battlecruiser for a game.

[fritske88]

@zenmonk9003 i know some C64 basic but this one is a whole other thing

[zenmonk9003]

@fritske88 The 128 used a more powerful programming language, Basic 7.0 and I could do some neat stuff with it as a kid like make my own games and program music and stuff. I couldn't program in 64 mode but I never took the time to learn two programming languges. Great computer though and lots of games in 64 mode.

[fcycles]

@fritske88 The C128 basic v7 (compare to v2 for C64) got split screen with graphic mode, graphic functions and sprites embedded and a set of sound/play functions (also a sprite editor). I admit for a first home computer when you got nothing more than the instruction manual, it was more easy to create graphics & sound programs than the C64.

[Suprasylph]

@fritske88 You are correct. Much of it resembles the BASIC featured in the VIC-20 SuperExpander cartridge.

[dogcatmouse23]

we did this stuff to when owned a Commodore 128 as a child with the family

[mcsdaver]

When they had C=128s in stores I could turn one on and write a program with flying starships in a very short time.

Basic on the 128 was great.

You had a sprite editor to make what you wanted and comands to make them move and fire at each other.

Those were the days.

I miss my C=128.