Hi! Welcome to my little piece of a web of days gone by...!
Now that I'm on my pension, I decided to resurrect these pages after more than a decade in order to keep active and to show off some of my updated Basic-256 demo programs. (Now compatible with 2.0.0.11) Those can be found at the following location:
UglyMike's Basic-256 Demo Programs
Although Jim is still active, I understand that Basic-256 has lost most of its former audience (A broken website won't help...)
Nevertheless, I have also updated my Particle Tutorial which you can see here:
UglyMike's Basic-256 Particle Tutorials
Basic-256 is a nice QT-fronted Basic interpreter, available as a normal or a 'portable' package. It sports a simple Basic dialect designed to teach beginners the basics of computer programming.
Peronally I have had (and am still having) a lot of fun with this nice environment. One even can already make nice programs with it as I hope to demonstrate....
It even has its own Wikipedia Page now. I've already updated the UglyMike link (in "External links") to point here....
I found this very nice piece of CSS called "Ruthsarian Layouts". Unfortunately, the original site no longer exists My thanks to the creator(s). My apologies as well because my web skills are sorely lacking lrading probably to big no-no's all over the code... In my defense, I have no idea what I'm doing.
Very Old Feedbacks:
08/09/2013: Love having you involved in the BASIC256 community. Jim
04/08/2013: This is one awesome blog.Really looking forward to read more. Will read on...
24/07/2013: Great stuff, man. Keep up the good work!
24/07/2013: Thank you ever so for you article post.Thanks Again. Great.
04/07/2013: Thanks a lot for the blog.Really looking forward to read more. Will read on...
20/04/2013: Thanks for sharing, this is a fantastic article. Keep writing.
25/03/2013: Excellent work!
01/02/2013: Hey, thanks for the article post.Thanks Again. Great
25/11/2012: On the particle Tutorial: Thanks for sharing, this is a fantastic article post. Really Great.
26/08/2012: Thanks for a Basic, so simple yet so hard. lrcvs
28/02/2012: Thanks for the nice programming tutorials. I appreciate your efforts!!
16/02/2012: Awesome, I found it Basic256 by accident while reading through stackoverflow.com recommendations for new programmers. You are doing a great job demonstrating advanced programming concepts in KB256! Thanks & all the best!
18/10/2011: Excellent work - keep it up, please.
20/01/2025
Added "ParticleFun" to the "Particle Based Programs" section.
19/01/2025
Added "CobwebPlot" to the "BTK2 Demo Programs" section.
10/10/2024
Resurrected the site and updated most of the programs to be compatible with 2.0.0.11.
11/09/2013
Added Aqua inspired BTK2 routines to the site.
23/08/2013
Lots of older programs were horribly broken. Everything now runs ok again under 0.9.9.64.
22/08/2013
Added "Percolation" to the "BTK2 Demo Programs" section.
06/03/2013
Added "Basic Paint" to the "BTK2 Demo Programs" section.
23/11/2012
Added "Critters" to the "BTK2 Demo Programs" sectionto and a Flood-It game to "Other Programs".
27/10/2012
Updated BTK to BTK2 (CALL/SUBROUTINE) and added a BTK2 overall demo program.