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		npongratz on Feb 10, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BASIC Computer Games (1978) Steve Wozniak made a (likely) passing reference to this book while reminiscing about writing BASIC from scratch for the original Apple: http://gizmodo.com/how-steve-wozniak-wrote-basic-for-the-ori... Woz refers to a book named "101 Games in BASIC", which may be different from "BASIC Computer Games", but I haven't been able to confirm with certainty one way or the other. Either way, his testimonial is impressive: The other 'bible' was a book "101 Games in BASIC." I was a fan of computer games and knew that as soon as I had a computer of my own I would want to type in all these games to play. Judging by my own feelings, I assumed that this would be a key to starting a home computer revolution.

unwiredben on Feb 10, 2015 [–]

"101 Basic Computer Games" was the first edition, published by DEC. See the cover image at http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=co.... Later versions were published by David Ahl as part of Creative Computing Press.

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