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### What are we doing? ### What are we doing?
We're updating the first million selling computer book, [BASIC Computer Games](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_Computer_Games), for 2021! We're updating the first million selling computer book, [BASIC Computer Games](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_Computer_Games), for 2022 and beyond!
[Read book](https://annarchive.com/files/Basic_Computer_Games_Microcomputer_Edition.pdf) [Read book](https://annarchive.com/files/Basic_Computer_Games_Microcomputer_Edition.pdf)
### Where can we discuss it? ### Where can we discuss it?
Please see [the discussion here](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/updating-101-basic-computer-games-for-2021/7927) for a worklog and conversation around this project. Please see [the discussion here](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/-/7927) for a worklog and conversation around this project.
### Project structure ### Project structure
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> I've included all the games here for your tinkering pleasure. I've tested and tweaked each one of them to make sure they'll run with Vintage BASIC, though you may see a few oddities. That's part of the fun of playing with BASIC: it never works quite the same on two machines. The games will play better if you keep CAPS LOCK on, as they were designed to be used with capital-letter input. > I've included all the games here for your tinkering pleasure. I've tested and tweaked each one of them to make sure they'll run with Vintage BASIC, though you may see a few oddities. That's part of the fun of playing with BASIC: it never works quite the same on two machines. The games will play better if you keep CAPS LOCK on, as they were designed to be used with capital-letter input.
Each project has subfolders corresponding to the languages we'd like to see the games ported to. This is based on the [February 2021 TIOBE index of top languages](https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/) that are _memory safe_ and _general purpose scripting language_ per [this post](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/updating-101-basic-computer-games-for-2021/7927/34): Each project has subfolders corresponding to the languages we'd like to see the games ported to. This is based on the [February 2021 TIOBE index of top languages](https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/) that are _memory safe_ and _general purpose scripting language_ per [this post](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/-/7927/34):
- Java - Java
- Python - Python