Tiny BASIC programming language

Software theme

Tiny BASIC open standard dialect of BASIC designed to be liberated from proprietary concerns and fit into 4K or less.

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Bill Gates is responsible for Tiny BASIC, "copyleft", and GNU. Though indirectly. In response to Gate's Open Letter to Hobbyists, the People's Computer Company newsletter published the specification of TinyBASIC and invited readers to implement the specification in assembly language and send their code back to the magazine. Similar to the way Linus Torvolds would later release the Linux Kernel. It was likewise extremely successful with an overwhelming submission of code. The term "copyleft" was coined as a result of the community response. The article about TinyBASIC was intended to be published in three parts but instead launched the Dr. Dobb's Journal* magazine dedicated to it. DDJ would expand from TinyBASIC implementations to Tiny-C and other small copyleft softwares not bound to proprietary hardware. Steve Wozniak, Gary Kildall, Jef Raskin, Li-Chen Wang, Richard Stallman, and 'Verity Stob' are a few of the well known names to contribute to the magazine. Richard Stallman's GNU project was 1st announce in DDJ.


* The full title of Dr. Dobb's Journal was originally dr. dobb's journal of Tiny BASIC Calisthenics & Orthodontia: Running Light Without Overbyte) (capitols and lack of them are intentional)

Popular tags

basic cosmacelf cpu-6800 cpu-8080 cpu-8086 cpu-z80 keyboard sourcecode sourcecodeavailable terminalinterface typein

Parent group

BASIC programming language

Games by year

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The first Tiny BASIC programming language video game was released on August 1, 1972.

Questdata published all these games.

Platforms

Altair 8800 3
COSMAC VIP 3
custom 1