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I have alot of Nostalga for QBasic but I would recommend teaching kids Python or the original C. Depending on their interest, I would even consider Javascript. Basic wont ruin them but most programs in basic have none professional feel to them. If it was me, I would teach them C first then introduce them to Python for Object Oriented Programming. Depending on what they want to create, I would introduce other tools in their languange of choice.

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BMC64 is great. I’ve built one with usb keyboard, and joystick ports wired to the GPIO. I wish it was available for the Pi400 too.

I think “Not a Wizard” also deserves to be on this list, he has great programming videos.

Started with VIC20 and tape drive, and Basic and some assembly. I also tried Forth as that was one of the tapes I got with a computer. Later I got C64, still only tape drive. Did my diploma work with Simon's Basic as it had so many commands, mostly graphic ones that I needed (wanted to draw 3D graphics. One wireframe sphere would took 5 hours to render! ). In school we learned Fortran and Cobol (that we had chance to try on some big IBM mainframes from the local bank) After that I got Amiga 500 and there, I wanted to try Amiga Basic, but discovered and loved more C.

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so cool

DAmn i think about my dad when i watch this he got his x64 back in his day he also was crazy over D&D

Great video. Quick question, so for any poject the safety way to go is putting a 1k resistor in gnd right?

Brings back memories!

My first computer was a Vic-20. I bought one just after graduating from high school. In school, i had taken a "computer math" class. We used TRS-80s, which we called "trash 80's". The Commodore 64 was my next computer. For nostalgia, i just bought a C64 mini, which I received yesterday.

I was much older than many of you here when the VIC-20 came out but it was my first computer and a great intro to BASIC. I loved programming so much I earned a Bachelors in Computer Science.

Wow, it was fast! :D Congrat sir this video has won the 10s award :) Which means I've never seen any of your content before and within 10 second I subscribed to your channel. :D

Basic was my 1st language that I liked and just recently got VISION Basic for the 64 which has rekindled that love.

What is the game that you have running on the photo on your blog page about this project?

In Commodore BASIC 2.0, it seems with IF, there's no ELSE clause, that later BASIC versions have... interesting...

Brilliant Design 💙

Started in Cobol, BASH, C, Java. Old school analyst programmer course from 2000 to 2003.... But the worse was Assembly... the teacher had us do exams with pen and paper on graph-type paper to note the hexadecimal values in memory of the data we manipulated with Asembly. Yeah my first work as an intern was COBOL for the gov't ! In passé computer infrastructures for the time. NORTEL had failed and they were still - ARE STILL - using COBOL.

Nice one. The great thing about these 'golden era' first home computers (ZX80/81/Spectrum, CBM64) was that you simply switched them on and you were taken instantly into a BASIC/IDE environment. That's what hooked so many into beginning their passion for programming. Is it this easy today? - bizarrely no! since you need to install your own IDE & toolsets. That said, double-click on any of these excellent emulators and you're taken straight into that same 1980's BASIC environment.

My first computer was a C=128, I loved that machine, even purchased a monitor for it instead of running on a TV then I wanted sound so I bought a Tandy under monitor with duel front firing speakers and a bottom firing woofer, had a nice amp built in with great controls. I still have that! It is old now but still looks good, I tore it down and replaced all the caps on it a few months ago, then put in a blue tooth receiver so I can use it for a BT speaker set . Nice, it has a regular power cord so no searching for a wall wart, still sounds great too! Oh I did replace the volume variable resistor as it was getting to bad even with a spray of cleaner.

Wow, this video is great! But I'm having a problem were the clear home button doesn't work. Any idea on how to fix it? Also how would I go about continuing my learning seeing as you don't make videos anymore? Is there any good manuals you recomend?

Thank you for this great intro to basic, ive got a Vic-20 in late 1980 at age 12 and moved on with Sinclair 48k, then C=64, and then C=128. but after these all years away from the Basic language ive forgotten it, so this course i gold for me to get back on it, now i built a Raspberry PI running Combian 64 emulator wich emulates all commodores from PET to C=128,.....it is awesome fun, thank you again Chris Garrett <3 =)

I had a programming teacher at college who said a program should have only one start and one exit. She, too, frowned on BASIC due to GOTO and I found her arguments a bit retarded because what's BEQ? What's BNE? What's BRA? What's BHI if they're not all forms of GOTO? You can't RTS from one of those. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love the C64 but Commodore 64 BASIC - really??? It's shit! I got spoilt with BBC BASIC and that had support for graphics and sounds and many more features C64 BASIC could only dream of.

i've heard that quote from djkstra before and yeah, it's totally backwards. sure, there are conventions in basic that don't work elsewhere... but that's EVERY LANGUAGE. the basics of how things work, what you're doing, why you're doing it, and the insane degree of bare metal access that 8bit computers gave to users THROUGH BASIC really gives people a leg up on understanding the overall process of computing and programming. no grudge against djkstra but yeah, he's very very very wrong and it would be a great boon to kids right now to start with even a commodore vic20.

What do you call the white board that the Adafruit is connected to? Is was a great idea to use this and have it fit very cleanly in the case.

Great info and delivery. Ty!

You missed Gamesack. All my retro gaming knowledge comes from that channel.

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Let time goin

I stumbled upon your video a week ago and was on fire at once. I bought an electronics starter kit with LEDs, the PCB and resistors and an additional cable kit with those little banana plugs, a user port protection and a user port adapter of course. And a huge magnifying glass to see everything. But it doesn't work. It's very tough to see where you stuck your plugs on the PCB and you don't give additional information about it. Also nothing on your web site. Would have been really cool to control something with the user port, but now I'm a little disappointed. Well, at least the C64 is unharmed ;)

This is great

Great tutorial, thank you! Would it be possible to use the arduino's RX and TX pins instead? I intend to run third party firmware on my arduino that can only use the RX and TX pins, if at all possible

Man you talk/go through this extremely fast. For something aimed at beginners I’d recommend pausing/taking a breath every once in a while - otherwise this comes off as a quick refresher for someone who already knows all this stuff. I’ve actually gone through a couple books and done a little bit of BASIC and I’m struggling to keep up with the pace that you’re presenting the information.

Its great to see CBM Basic lessons. I wonder when will someone have similar lessons for MEGA65 newer basic, Sinclair QL SuperBASIC and I believe BBC Basic as best and mightiest basic versions

Your schematics are super simple. I do wonder why you did not connect +5V, are you powering it via Micro-USB? You also ditch connecting the I2C pins on the ESP (D1/D2) as some others do, am I correctly assuming this is not necessary if you don't have a display? Some people say using the userport 5V signals may fry the ESP, which expects 3.3v signals, what's your take on that?

Would this still work on a VIC-20?

I have some silly questions about the connection of the D1Mini module to the C64. First there is no power conection to the module. I guess it was missed out, but the D1Mini needs power right? A connection to userport Pin 2 would be needed. Second are the TX/RX pins on the D1Mini 5V tolerant? A 3.3 to 5V level shifter should be used othewise you can fry the D1Mini. Maybe I'm completely wrong, I apreciate your comments. Thanks!

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Yeah we all should learn BASIC ..

What's the difference between BMC64 and Combian64? Which is best? I'm confused. Also, what size SD card do you recommend? Thanks so much for any help and sorry about all of the questions.

I love this 😊

Commodore basic having slow integers is more annoying than I ever would have expected. Most recent example, I wanted to use an integer overflow to zero as a timer, but the integer math showed things down so much it wasn't worth it.

You were getting a like anyway, but for using grok, I'd give you a second like if I could :D

Drive question maybe you can help with. I'm generating a chart of math data I'd like to save periodically while the program runs unattended. Is there a way to check for free disk space mid program so I can avoid writing to a full disk? And secondly, it's there an update our interrupt from the disk drive when it finishes a write that I WAIT on to avoid trying to write to a disk that's still being written? Thanks!

@Retro Game Coders - Chris Garrett hey thanks for sharing this info. Question. I am a heavy Mac user. Correct me if I am wrong but are you using a Mac to set up everything? I am new at this stuff. I have read a lot about this and still feel overwhelmed with this. Could I ask if you could help me set my system up. I am willing to compensate you for your time. Please let me know. Thanks

Brilliant! Thanks for making this video

I love how easy and simple early computers where when it comes to simple programming concepts.

Question, what is the name, artist of that lovely tune ?