Credits

fr303.com is an independent hobby project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of the original authors, publishers, studios or leagues.

How these were made

These are modern browser versions of classic programs. They were rebuilt in JavaScript with the help of AI coding assistants, working from the original program listings. Any bugs or differences from the originals belong to these versions, not to the original authors.

Sources

• Hammurabi and Stock Market are based on BASIC programs published in David H. Ahl's Creative Computing books and magazine. The listings are collected at vintage-basic.net, where the original authors are credited in each listing. In 2022 Ahl placed his classic computing publications in the public domain.
• Galactic Sweep is an independent, re-themed version of Super Star Trek, a classic BASIC game by Bob Leedom, based on the original Star Trek by Mike Mayfield, as published by David H. Ahl and collected at vintage-basic.net.
• Football is a browser version of the 1978 BASIC game N.F.U. Football (No Fortran Used) ("N.F.U." is a joke about not using Fortran), published by David H. Ahl in Creative Computing and collected at vintage-basic.net.
• Football vs. Computer, LEM, Rocket, Hexapawn, Life, Bagels, Hurkle, Mugwump, Nim, Hi-Lo, Awari and Mastermind run the original BASIC listings from the 1978 book BASIC Computer Games, published by David H. Ahl’s Creative Computing and collected at vintage-basic.net, using a small BASIC interpreter written for this site (also available in the BASIC Playground). Where the listings name their authors: Hexapawn is based on Martin Gardner’s matchbox learning machine, with an original version by R.A. Kaapke (1976), instructions by Jeff Dalton and a conversion by Steve North; Mastermind (“Mastermind II”) is by Steve North; Mugwump is courtesy of People’s Computer Company; the origin of Bagels is listed as unknown. Life is John Conway’s Game of Life. Football vs. Computer is the program the book calls Ftball. Two small changes were made to the listings: the place-kick jump in Ftball was corrected (as printed, kicks could never score), and a play-again check in Bagels was fixed. Life has a short pause and screen clear added between generations.
• Lunar Lander follows the physics of the 1969 FOCAL Lunar Lander program, as presented and documented by Jim Storer at Brandeis University.
• Wireframe Front is based on cbzone, a vector tank game for X11. cbzone derives from Fortran sources by Justin S. Revenaugh and was translated and extended in C by Todd W. Mummert. Tank and scenery shapes are taken from the cbzone source.

Trademarks

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