hello from Scotland !!!! o/

Twenty-five years after I used my C64 daily, my muscle memory still remembered the key combinations for moving the cursor. It still felt completely natural. The body is amazing.

Greetings from Barcelona (Spain). I really enjoy programming in BASIC (in this case MSX2 BASIC, an 8‑bit micro). Very interesting content. I’m subscribing.

still have mine and all my games. was great to code on

I had a c16 and loved programming on it, great programming environment and miles ahead of my old vic20, as good as Sinclair basic.

I never new much about this machine. Pretty impressive performance for running in BASIC.

Interesting!

Had one of those, made basic games and used a lot of the fun capabilities it had.

Pound-for-pound the Commodore-64 was the best computer.  I used my Dad's to print (with a Daisy Wheel!) countless resumes & cover letters when searching for my first job.

The Users Guide contained the Assembly Commands so you could program it from the ground up.  I also found a C compiler for it, so I could relax writing high-level code. ;)

Yes, I goofed-around with a number of the games he had for it, too!  The submarine game was the toughest.

I still find it amazing that the C64 didn't ship with a decent version of Basic.  CBM Basic v.2 was essentially the same as found in the old CBM PET machines, and contained no graphics, colour or sound commands.  Yet the technically inferior Plus 4 and C16 had them all.  Stranger still since Atari had released their advanced 400 and 800 machines in 1979, complete with a comprehensive Basic to take advantage of their incredible graphics and sound capabilities. But Jack Tramiel was so miserly it's amazing he even sanctioned the development of the C64's more advanced features.  😂

I'm interested in C16/+4 things

Great video! The Plus/4 Basic is really powerful BASIC and a subset of Basic 7.0 on the Commodore 128. I wrote a 3D renderer in Basic 3.5 for the Plus/4. But there is a 3.5 BASIC extension for the C64 with its hardware limitations (16 colors, no sid Support), where my Renderer also runs on perfectly.

My first computer in 1984

For sure we'd love to see you make a game out of those sprites, or anything else you could come up with with the +4! I basically (see what I did there?) know nothing about the Basic v3.5, I'm intrigued :)

You can cursor to the line in the directory list and enter DLOAD"

you should experiment with multi colour UDGs (user defined graphics).

I remember making several C-128 type-in programs work on the plus/4 with minor effort....basic 3.5 has a lot of native commands to make life easier.

I could have been more creative if I had this BASIC on my C64.

I never used Plus 4!
Not even after i bought one like 2 decades ago. It's still in the box.
After seeing your video now and the graphics demo, i thought why not trying a program i wrote a while back for the C128.
And see there, it was working without having to change a single byte. {it needs some changes to make the text better visible though}
Bil Herd made the graphics and graphics color area address space be the same in Plus 4 and C128 as it looks.
Text area isn't the same {starting at 3072 and on C64/C128 is at 1024}...

If anyone wants to try it out, here it is.
It is drawing equal faces over the screen in 1st run.
In 2nd run it is adding colors and randomly modifying the faces to three types: sad, neutral and happy.

{the code can be just copy/pasted to the emulator like VICE {Plus 4}}
{Update: COLOR command adapted to Plus 4 Mode {Luminance}

100 graphic 1,1: rem graphic mode
101 color 1,5,7: rem drawing color
105 gs=8192: rem graphic area $2000
106 nl=320: rem gfx horizontal res
107 cs=7168: rem graphic color ram
108 cl=40: rem 1 color=8=byte!=320
120 for y = 0 to 23 step 2
130 for x = 0 to 39 step 2
140 poke gs+(nl*y)+0+(x*8),173
150 poke gs+(nl*y)+1+(x*8),80
160 poke gs+(nl*y)+2+(x*8),182
170 poke gs+(nl*y)+3+(x*8),96
180 poke gs+(nl*y)+4+(x*8),193
190 poke gs+(nl*y)+5+(x*8),160
200 poke gs+(nl*y)+6+(x*8),128
210 poke gs+(nl*y)+7+(x*8),143
220 rem
230 poke gs+(nl*y)+0+(x+1)*8,181
240 poke gs+(nl*y)+1+(x+1)*8,10
250 poke gs+(nl*y)+2+(x+1)*8,109
260 poke gs+(nl*y)+3+(x+1)*8,6
270 poke gs+(nl*y)+4+(x+1)*8,131
280 poke gs+(nl*y)+5+(x+1)*8,5
290 poke gs+(nl*y)+6+(x+1)*8,1
300 poke gs+(nl*y)+7+(x+1)*8,241
310 rem
320 poke gs+nl*(y+1)+0+(x)*8,192
330 poke gs+nl*(y+1)+1+(x)*8,127
340 poke gs+nl*(y+1)+2+(x)*8,197
350 poke gs+nl*(y+1)+3+(x)*8,93
360 poke gs+nl*(y+1)+4+(x)*8,221
370 poke gs+nl*(y+1)+5+(x)*8,93
380 poke gs+nl*(y+1)+6+(x)*8,197
390 poke gs+nl*(y+1)+7+(x)*8,127
400 rem
410 poke gs+nl*(y+1)+0+(x+1)*8,2
420 poke gs+nl*(y+1)+1+(x+1)*8,254
430 poke gs+nl*(y+1)+2+(x+1)*8,35
440 poke gs+nl*(y+1)+3+(x+1)*8,170
450 poke gs+nl*(y+1)+4+(x+1)*8,35
460 poke gs+nl*(y+1)+5+(x+1)*8,107
470 poke gs+nl*(y+1)+6+(x+1)*8,35
480 poke gs+nl*(y+1)+7+(x+1)*8,254
490 rem
500 next x
510 next y
520 rem this part is drawing diff
530 rem faces
540 for y=0 to 23 step 2
550 for x=0 to 19
560 ex=int(rnd(1)*3)+1
570 gosub 860
580 if ex=1 then gosub 620
590 if ex=2 then gosub 690
600 if ex=3 then goto 770
610 goto 770
620 fora=6 to 6
630 poke gs+(x*16)+(nl*(0+y))+a,16
640 next
650 fora=6to6
660 poke gs+8+(x*16)+(nl*(0+y))+a,8
660 poke gs+8+(x*16)+(nl*(0+y))+a,8
670 next:return
690 rem next row :::::::::::::::::
700 fora=0 to 0
710 poke gs+(x*16)+(nl*(1+y))+a,16
720 next
730 fora=0 to 0
740 poke gs+8+(x*16)+(nl*(1+y))+a,8
750 next: return
770 rem exit rnd and next rotation
780 next:next
790 b$="commodore c128/it can be done!"
800 c$=" 2024!":d$=b$+c$
810 t=len(d$)/2:color 1,15,7
820 char 1,20-t,24,d$,1
830 get a$:if a$=" " then goto 850
840 goto 830
850 graphic 0:end
860 rem colors
870 l=(rnd(1)*10)+1
880 poke cs+(x*2)+(cl*(0+y)),l
890 o=(rnd(1)*10)+1
900 poke cs+1+(x*2)+(cl*(0+y)),o
910 k=(rnd(1)*10)+1
920 poke cs+(x*2)+(cl*(1+y)),k
930 i=(rnd(1)*10)+1
940 poke cs+1+(x*2)+(cl*(1+y)),i
950 return
960 end

Oh wow, had no idea. I have two +4s 😂