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by nextaccountic 63 days ago
> I couldn't think of what else fun I could get them to do with only console text in/out.

maybe specialized calculators that ask some parameters (like "how many days" etc) and run some formulas

could even be useful for something
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qingcharles 63 days ago
I wish I'd had a bunch of those BASIC programming books from the 8-bit home computer era, they had a ton of fun games based only on simple console input and output.
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anthk 63 days ago
You can just run bwbasic today (or blassic) and clone the Basic Computer Games from

https://github.com/GReaperEx/bcg

https://github.com/John-Titor/bwbasic

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