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Next Without For

earl@retrobits.com (Earl Evans and Randy Kindig)•www.nextwithoutfor.org
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At Next Without For, Earl Evans and Randy Kindig cover historical computer languages (compilers and interpreters) and modern programming tools for retro computers.
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Show 015 - Atari 8-Bit Programming

Randy and Earl discuss the various options for modern programming on Atari 8-bit systems, including the Atari 400/800 and their successors! News/Personal Projects RP2040 Geek - https://www.waveshare.com/rp2040-geek.htm z80pack on Waveshare RP2040-GEEK/RP2350-GEEK - https://github.com/udo-munk/RP2xxx-GEEK-80 Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition - https://csscgc2025.blogspot.com/ Article about the Crap Games competition on The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/jul/06/people-com...

May 23, 2025•1 hr 28 min

Show 014 - The History of BASIC

Randy and Earl cover the history of the BASIC programming language, including its origins, and the wide adoption of BASIC on 8-bit systems in the 1970s and 1980s! News BASIC 10-Liner Contest - https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium Show Topic https://www.dartmouth.edu/basicfifty/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxo9LVIgOiI “Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer” by Michael Swaine, Paul Freiberger (associate link) - https://amzn.to/3EzdPCp Wikipedia - https://en.wikip...

Feb 24, 2025•1 hr 10 min

Show 013 - ugBASIC

Randy and Earl talk about ugBASIC, and Randy interviews the author/creator! News BASIC 60th birthday!: https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/03/basic_60th_birthday_releases/ AMSCII-Compo: https://logiker.com/AMSCII-Compo (Amstrad CPC AMSCII) Show Topic ugBASIC main site: https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/ ugBASIC IDE: https://spotlessmind1975.itch.io/ugbasic-ide ugBASIC keywords: https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/#collapseKeywords ugBASIC examples: https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/target/to8#examples ugBASIC forum...

Jun 19, 2024•1 hr 54 min

Show 012 - CHIP-8

Randy and Earl explore programming of the CHIP-8 family of interpreters! News! No news this episode! Z88DK, C compiler and assembler for 8080, Z80, 8085 https://z88dk.org/site/ CHIP-8 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8 Joseph Weisbecker: http://www.cosmacelf.com/history/joseph-weisbecker.html Joseph Weisbecker’s introduction of CHIP-8 in Byte Magazine, Dec. 1978 https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-12/page/n109/mode/1up CHIP-8 Technical Reference: https://github.com/mattmi...

Mar 18, 2024•1 hr 1 min

Show 011 - Using BASIC on Modern Hardware

News! Atari BASIC AI training - https://discord.gg/WnEcxSvtS Nabu computer - https://nabu.ca/ More Contests! Amiga Jam - https://itch.io/jam/amigatooljam VisionBASIC Game Contest - http://visionbasic.fun/ AMSTRAD ASCII Compo - http://logiker.com/AMSCII-Compo BASIC implementations for iOS (iphone/iPad): BBC BASIC by Richard Russell - free - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/bbcbasic/id6444498023 Commodore BASIC - Hand BASIC - CBM flavor by Ahmad Hawwash - free - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hand-bas...

Aug 18, 2023•1 hr 18 min

Show 010 - Assembly Language, Part II

Randy and Earl continue the discussion of Assembly Language in this second episode of a two-parter. If you missed it, check out Show 009 for Part I!

Mar 17, 2023•45 min

Show 009 Assembly Language Part I

In part I of this discussion on assembly language, Randy and Earl discuss what assembly language is, who invented it, how it works (generally), and why one might have chosen to use it back in the classic days of computing.

Jan 16, 2023•43 min

Show 008 - 64 Bites

Randy interviews Michal Taszycki, owner of 64 Bites! And, we talk about some more contests.

Jun 25, 2022•1 hr 37 min

Show 007 - Programming Contests

Earl and Randy talk about various retro computer programming contests, where participants can show off their creations for platforms from back in the day!

Mar 06, 2022•48 min

Show 006 - SNOBOL

Randy and Earl talk about the SNOBOL programming language - history, specifics of the language, and how to play with it today!

Oct 11, 2021•1 hr 31 min

Show 004 - Turbo Rascal

Randy and Earl talk about Turbo Rascal Syntax Error, and Randy has a chat with its creator.

Oct 04, 2020•1 hr 13 min

Show 003 - Fortran

Randy and I cover Fortran, the granddaddy of computer languages.

Jul 22, 2020•1 hr 19 min

Show 001 - Turbo Pascal 3

A look at Turbo Pascal 3 for CP/M - the last version of Turbo Pascal to be released on that classic operating system.

Oct 13, 2013•36 min
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