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10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 5. SERIES FOREWORD 10. REM VARIATIONS IN BASIC

EMULATING THE COMMODORE 64 UNBALANCED WEAVE CORNERS CORNERS AND DIAGONALS FOUR WALLS TWO WALLS

POKE

RANDOM SOUNDS

15. MAZES

WHAT IS A MAZE? MYTH, RITUAL, AND ALLEGORY THE LABORATORY MAZE THE COMPUTERIZED MAZE ENTERING THE MAZE

20. REM PORTS TO OTHER PLATFORMS

APPLESOFT BASIC AND TANDY COLOR BASIC PERL AND JAVASCRIPT: MODERN ONE-LINERS PATH: MAZE AS PERVERSE PROGRAM WHAT PORTING REVEALS

25. REGULARITY

REPETITION IN SPACE

Truchet Tiles Textiles and Craft

THE GRID IN MODERN ART THE COMPUTER SCREEN REPETITION IN TIME REPETITION IN PROCESS

Conditional and Unconditional Branching The harmfulness of GOTO Bounded and Unbounded Loops Looping and Iterating

PERFORMINg ThE LOOP

30. REM VARIATIONS IN PROCESSING 35. RANDOMNESS

GAMES OF CHANCE

The Appeal of the Random Forms of Randomness

RANDOMNESS BEFORE COMPUTING

Chance Operations A Million Random Digits

RANDOMNESS COMES TO COMPUTING COMPUTATIONAL RANDOMNESS IN THE ARTS

Early Experiments in Computational Art Acceptance and Resistance

THE COMMODORE 64 RND FUNCTION

40. REM ONE-LINERS 45. BASIC

PROGRAMMING AND THE BEGINNING Of BASIC

Machine Language and Assembly Language High-Level Languages Dartmouth BASIC and Time-Sharing Minicomputers

BASIC COMES TO ThE hOME

Altair BASIC and Microsoft Tiny BASIC and Copyleft The Ethic vs. The Corporation

COMMODORE BASIC THE CIRCULATION OF BASIC PROGRAMS

Programs in Print BASIC in Human Memory

LATE BASIC

50. REM A PORT TO THE ATARI VCS

CODING THE CHARACTERS BUILDING THE WALLS COVERING THE SCREEN BOUNDING THE MAZE

55. THE COMMODORE 64

HOME COMPUTING BEYOND THE HOBBYIST COMMODORE BUSINESS MACHINES

The PET The VIC-20

PETSCII

The Order of PETSCII The Shape of PETSCII

THE VIC-II CHIP

Text on the VIC-II Designing New Characters

THE KERNAL

A View from Assembly Language

60. REM MAZE WALKER IN BASIC

FIXING THE MAZE WALKING THE MAZE TOUCHING THE MAZE TESTING THE MAZE

65. CONCLUSION 70. END 75. THANKS 80. WORKS CITED 85. VARIANTS OF 10 PRINT

VARIANT 1982 VARIANT 1984 VARIANT 2008A VARIANT 2008B VARIANT 2010A VARIANT 2010B VARIANTS 2010C–F VARIANT 2010G VARIANT 2011a VARIANT 2011b

90. ABOUT THE AUTHORS 95. INTRODUCTION

ONE LINE CORE CONTRIBUTIONS 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10

10 {SPACE} PRINT CHR$ ( 205.5 + RND 1 ; : GOTO RUN

PLAN OF THE BOOK

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