Family BASIC
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Family BASIC is a consumer product for programming on the Family Computer video game console. Family BASIC was launched on June 21, 1984, to consumers in Japan by Nintendo, in cooperation with Hudson
The Family BASIC keyboard with application cartridge
BASIC
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BASIC is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use. The original version was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1964. Th
Family BASIC
…requires the use of the Famicom's cartridge slot, which prevents using the slot for the Family BASIC cartridge. Family BASIC includes a dialect of the BASIC programming language enhanced for game development. Its HuBASIC command set is extended with support for sprites, animation, backgrounds, musical…
The HP 2000 system was designed to run time-shared BASIC as its primary task.
"Train Basic every day!"—reads a poster (bottom center) in a Russian school (c. 1985–86)