- Pig BASIC
- Visual Logo
- S’more
- ++C
- Fivetran 77
- Hypocard
- Pilot
- pfKey 128
- Slot Car Construction Kit
- RedC
- VRML
- Eddie Haskell
- Sea Leopard
- Hupmobile
- Zestar
- Language Sixteen
- Subscript
- Turbo TeX
- HORSE
- Retweet To Enter And Win
- geoForth
- Ultrafont+
- Ironic Pascal
- Object Oriented Ubbi Dubbi
- QuickClam 2.8
Reference: Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops?: The Lost Toys, Tastes, and Trends of the 70s and 80s, Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, Brian Bellmont.
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PEEK in a POKE — developed by COMPUTE! magazine
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In all seriousness: working on this sent me searching the Compute! and the Compute!’s Gazette archives for a spoof article they published once. It was this description of, like, the ultimate Commodore 64 BASIC expansion set. Not just adding in DOS and graphics and sound commands, but also programming tools, compression schemes to make the 1541 disk drive as fast as one of those fancy hard drives, to increase the number of screen sprites to 1,024 with 256 colors each, to expand the effective memory from 64 kb to ONE MEGABYTE … it was all a pretty nice joke, although since it started out like any of a jillion BASIC expansion set articles you had to discover that. And now I can’t find it! You’d think it would have to be published in an April issue, but it’s not. And I spent a lot of time leafing through issues trying to find the piece and it’s just … gone. There’s no way I imagined such a thing, though; I read it too much.
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