By the way, I must have the old floppies of Wordstar.

You may check this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS8RWGqUWPE

Would you know how to emulate cp/m with Debian?

...umm, not really, I already met Donkey Kong :)

That's very advanced ;) (high-tech ;) )

I have never played on PDP any games. Might have been interesting ;) I just know spacewars!

Hmmm, maybe (little smile here) it could be beneficial to translate some of the BASIC games in that book and...kinda "update" these...

Are you game? (pun intended) ;)
Most were made on these character-only terminals (80 cols by 25 lines) and are ... nostalgia, to put it softjy...

Thor

Character-only terminals (80 cols by 25 lines)
So small. Fascinating, really... Btw, let me check the fbdev of my handheld: 50 x 15 (it is even worst) :) :)

EDIT:
Oh man, this is true. I had several books about games, all written for BASIC. I had completely forgotten that. I had one book
with a pink cover, so far I can remember. It could be quite interesting to read it again.

...and do rewrites. Remember, us Linuxeans live...in the console... :)
I HAVE to dig up that yellow one too...why not. Should be fun, maybe to use Python or PERL instead of BASIC...I doubt that BASIC is even available/practical in Linux...
Edit - maybe this could be a great opportunity to learn ncurses... :)
Edit 2 - man, I cant find the blasted book... :D
Edit 3 - Gottit, just found it! Cool....

Are you crazy Python? :) I would recommend you to learn of C or C++. You will not regret it, definitely. C is the very best language after BASIC. Unix and C are strongly connected. C is fascinating.

EDIT3: you have got a cover or a link? It is quite interesting. I would like to reproduce those simple programs in the C language.

where is my pink book? ;)

edit: https://www.google.com/search?q=basic+80+programs+book
(nice remembering if you click on images)
edit2: I just found a nice basic start in coding, which may eventually be interesting for you, if desired to start with C: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjyR9e-N1D4

Dont I know it :(. I'm a programmer, but C++ was scrapped from the course in favor of ... dot net (go figure :doh: ) so, I'm basically a car mechanic that does'nt know how to change a tire...:banghead: That's the belgian educational system, or better the school at geel (at town in belgium)...

But, granted, C++ is THE language to learn anyway...

The book was by David Ahl, there seemt to be a re-issue...

Thor

C and Westmalle Triple should be an obligation to learn ;)

Ah, hmm, there could be a glitch here. Okay on the C, the Westmalle, that's a snag. I'm smell deaf (no kidding :) ) and thus dont taste anything either. Fish and meat, impossible to tell the difference. Beer (and alcohol in general) is somewhat tricky for me :D I'd never graduate!!!
Always admired the people that could tell the difference between this of that wine, impossible fo me....eh, I dont miss that...there's more cool stuff to experience :D