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BASICODE: the 8-bit programming API that crossed the Berlin Wall

     * Track: [20]Retrocomputing devroom
     * Room: [21]K.3.401
     * Day: [22]Saturday
     * Start: [23]15:35
     * End: [24]16:05

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   At the height of the cold war, BASIC programs exchanged by radio and
   cassette tape provided young people of socialist Eastern and capitalist
   Western Europe a rare insight into each other's worlds. BASICODE was a
   transmission format and an API developed by the Dutch public
   broadcasting service to overcome the challenge of exchanging open
   source hobby programs in the highly fragmented 8-bit computing
   landscape of the early 1980s, which was dominated by mutually
   incompatible versions of BASIC. Somewhat improbably, the format was
   picked up across the iron curtain in the German Democratic Republic,
   where it experienced its age of greatest popularity. The need for
   programs to work on platforms with widely different capabilities and
   incompatible syntaxes forced it to be simply structured, highly
   regulated and relatively well documented. This makes it ideally suited
   for implementation in a web browser.
     * An early age of open source
     * Modulating source code for radio transmission
     * An API based on GOSUBs in BASIC
     * East and West in the 1980s
     * Implementing BASICODE in a web browser

Speakers

   [25]Rob Hagemans

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     * [26]BASICODE: the 8-bit API that crossed the Berlin Wall (slides)

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     * [27]BASICODE programs
     * [28]BASICODE implemented in JavaScript
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     * [30]Sample from "The Chip Shop Takeaway Service"
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