How do you play games on a 47 year old computer? | Tiny BASIC Adventures
#computers #technology #retro Tiny BASIC was an important milestone in the history of personal computing. It was an early example of open source/free software that was specifically tailored to the memory deficient computers of the mid 1970s. In this video, I fire it up on a vintage digital group z80 system and check out some games from tapes I've collected over the years. 00:00 Intro & digital group Backgrounder 02:53 What is Tiny Basic 06:28 digital group Tiny BASIC 08:32 Vintage Cassette Problems 09:21 Fixing the dg z80 10:01 Fixing broken cassettes 14:53 Loading and Exploring Tiny BASIC 17:10 Tiny BASIC sample program 18:00 Trying some test programs 19:32 Trying the sample program 21:00 Chomp! 23:28 Checkers 25:33 Digiguess 26:32 Brain Teaser 26:54 Biorhytm 28:06 Hamurabi 28:56 23 Matches 29:33 Blackjack 30:28 Bomber 31:43 ChatGPT - Did they have anti-aircraft missiles in WWII? 32:19 Lunar Lander 33:17 Space Battle 33:23 I Actually Hate Star Trek 34:17 Matador 35:47 "Dice" 36:35 Dr. Therapy 36:43 Brad Visits Dr. Digital Group 39:45 Conclusion 41:03 Press that Dislike Button. I Dare You. ° Background music provided by: http://www.epididemicsound.com ° I'm on Twitter - rarely. / techtimetravel ° I've a Facebook page too - I guess? / thetechtimetraveller ° Hangout/tip jar. / techtimetraveller
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