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10 Print for Macintosh
Posted by: AndiS on 2024-03-24 08:41:38
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10

This simple oneliner in Commodore BASIC has become quite famous for its nice complex output:

C64-Screenshot.gif

For this year's #MARCHintosh I asked myself, why should only the 8-bitters have all the fun? Sure, the Mac promised to not ever bother users with all that cryptic commandline stuff. But hey, that has been long ago and I don't care anyway ;-)

So I dowloaded the BASIC interpreter I considered to be easiest to learn (Chipmunk Basic) and started coding - here's the result on a Mac Classic:

Classic-Screenshot.gif

To be honest, this needed more than one line of code, but it is still nice. And look, there's some System ROM (?) content visible to the right of the graphics window ;-)

I wrote something up and also have the code for download on my Retro-Browser compatible web archive: https://archiv.sonnenmulde.at/MARCHintosh-2024/index.html

Enjoy!
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