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At Next Without For, Earl Evans and Randy Kindig cover historical computer languages (compilers and interpreters) and modern programming tools for retro computers.

Show 013 - ugBASIC 06/19/2024

Show 013 - ugBASIC Randy and Earl talk about ugBASIC, and Randy interviews the author/creator! News BASIC 60th birthday!: AMSCII-Compo: (Amstrad CPC AMSCII) Show Topic ugBASIC main site: ugBASIC IDE: ugBASIC keywords: ugBASIC examples: ugBASIC forum: Soko64 - fun puzzle game written in ugBASIC: Other Links 101 BASIC PROGRAMS FOR MICROCOMPUTERS: Floppy Days Podcast: ANTIC Podcast: /episode/index/show/322c5bbc-c704-4150-abf3-9c152d30b31e/id/31810687

Show 012 - CHIP-8 03/18/2024

Show 012 - CHIP-8 Randy and Earl explore programming of the CHIP-8 family of interpreters! News! No news this episode! Z88DK, C compiler and assembler for 8080, Z80, 8085 CHIP-8 Wikipedia: Joseph Weisbecker: Joseph Weisbecker’s introduction of CHIP-8 in Byte Magazine, Dec. 1978 CHIP-8 Technical Reference: IDE for creating CHIP-8 programs: Writing programs for CHIP-8 using Octo IDE: Awesome CHIP-8 - list of CHIP-8 resources CHIP-8 program archive CHIP-8 Computer CHIP-8 Extensions and Compatibility EZ-Pack: Convert large images into CHIP-8 Sprites EZ-Writer: Compose text strings to fit a CHIP-8 or SCHIP display, with a variety of fonts EZ-Bake Animator: Pre-generate Octo-compatible graphics programmatically C-Octo: Develop Octo programs from the command line For MacOS and Windows - Dorito For Windows - CHIP-8 emulator on Github Octojam Emma 02 emulator Can use RCA tab, COSMIC VIP option, for original CHIP-8 emulation /episode/index/show/322c5bbc-c704-4150-abf3-9c152d30b31e/id/30429233

Show 011 - Using BASIC on Modern Hardware 08/18/2023

Show 011 - Using BASIC on Modern Hardware News! Atari BASIC AI training - Nabu computer - More Contests! Amiga Jam - VisionBASIC Game Contest - AMSTRAD ASCII Compo - BASIC implementations for iOS (iphone/iPad): BBC BASIC by Richard Russell - free - Commodore BASIC - Hand BASIC - CBM flavor by Ahmad Hawwash - free - Hotpaw BASIC (iPad) - $4.99 - See: for a more complete description of the Basic language syntax Smart BASIC (iOS/Mac) by Nikolay Denislamov $11.99 - BASIC implementations for Android "BASIC Programming Compiler" - BASIC implementations for MacOS: PC-BASIC - (Windows/Mac/Linux/Python) - BBC BASIC by Richard Russell - PureBASIC - also Linux, Windows, RPi, AmigaOS 4 - Chipmunk BASIC - BASIC implementations for Windows: Vintage BASIC - SpecBAS - SmallBASIC - QB64 - - Windows, Linux, MacOS FreeBASIC - BASIC implementations for Linux: Matrix Brandy BASIC VI - Also check out this BBC BASIC reference - BASIC implementations for Web Browser: SPIDERBASIC - (Web/desktop) Applesoft BASIC in Javascript - Quite BASIC - Applesoft BASIC Editor CyanIIDE - wwwBASIC - /episode/index/show/322c5bbc-c704-4150-abf3-9c152d30b31e/id/27787224

Show 010 - Assembly Language, Part II 03/17/2023

Show 010 - Assembly Language, Part II Randy and Earl continue the discussion of Assembly Language in this second episode of a two-parter. If you missed it, check out Show 009 for Part I! /episode/index/show/322c5bbc-c704-4150-abf3-9c152d30b31e/id/26255853

Show 009 Assembly Language Part I 01/16/2023

Show 009 Assembly Language Part I In part I of this discussion on assembly language, Randy and Earl discuss what assembly language is, who invented it, how it works (generally), and why one might have chosen to use it back in the classic days of computing. /episode/index/show/322c5bbc-c704-4150-abf3-9c152d30b31e/id/25627032

Show 008 - 64 Bites 06/25/2022

Show 008 - 64 Bites Randy interviews Michal Taszycki, owner of 64 Bites! And, we talk about some more contests. /episode/index/show/322c5bbc-c704-4150-abf3-9c152d30b31e/id/25366020

Show 007 - Programming Contests 03/06/2022

Show 007 - Programming Contests Earl and Randy talk about various retro computer programming contests, where participants can show off their creations for platforms from back in the day! /episode/index/show/322c5bbc-c704-4150-abf3-9c152d30b31e/id/25366023

Show 006 - SNOBOL 10/11/2021

Show 006 - SNOBOL Randy and Earl talk about the SNOBOL programming language - history, specifics of the language, and how to play with it today! /episode/index/show/322c5bbc-c704-4150-abf3-9c152d30b31e/id/25366026

Show 005 - Programming the TI 58 and 59 01/18/2021

Show 005 - Programming the TI 58 and 59 Randy and Earl discuss programming for the TI 58 and 59 programmable calculators! /episode/index/show/322c5bbc-c704-4150-abf3-9c152d30b31e/id/25366029

Show 004 - Turbo Rascal 10/04/2020

Show 004 - Turbo Rascal Randy and Earl talk about Turbo Rascal Syntax Error, and Randy has a chat with its creator. /episode/index/show/322c5bbc-c704-4150-abf3-9c152d30b31e/id/25366032

Show 003 - Fortran 07/22/2020

Show 003 - Fortran Randy and I cover Fortran, the granddaddy of computer languages. /episode/index/show/322c5bbc-c704-4150-abf3-9c152d30b31e/id/25366035

Show 002 - Randy and Earl 06/21/2020

Show 002 - Randy and Earl Randy Kindig joins Next Without For as a co-host, and the podcast reboots! /episode/index/show/322c5bbc-c704-4150-abf3-9c152d30b31e/id/25366038

Show 001 - Turbo Pascal 3 10/13/2013

Show 001 - Turbo Pascal 3 A look at Turbo Pascal 3 for CP/M - the last version of Turbo Pascal to be released on that classic operating system. /episode/index/show/322c5bbc-c704-4150-abf3-9c152d30b31e/id/25366041

Show 000 - dBase III Plus 1.1 05/26/2013

Show 000 - dBase III Plus 1.1 Show zero of Next Without For covers the dBase III Plus 1.1 database programming environment. /episode/index/show/322c5bbc-c704-4150-abf3-9c152d30b31e/id/25366044

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