If you are a certain age, your first programming language was almost certainly BASIC. You probably at least saw the famous book by Ahl, titled BASIC Computer Games or 101 BASIC Computer Games. The … ...

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Many of them were contributed by readers–especially high school students–and in 1973, DEC published an anthology, 101 BASIC Computer Games. David Ahl's seminal anthology of BASIC games, in its ...

If you were alive in 1978 you’ll probably remember you couldn’t do much with a computer. The Altair had just hit the scene and BASIC was taking off but there was very little a kid of a certain ...