Creative Computing Magazine

Jun 10, 2024

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You probably remember the BASIC Computer Games books by David H. Ahl that were popular in the late 70s and early 80s. I previously wrote about them last year.

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Paul Lefebvre

August 14, 2023

At the dawn of the microcomputer era, there was not often a lot of software available and those that were interested in computers were also interested in programming them. Nearly every early computer had some version of BASIC built-in for both of those reasons. BASIC being interpreted made it easier to fit into the small RAM of those first computers.

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Although famous for those, David H. Ahl was also the founder of Creative Computing, a magazine that was launched in 1974 at about the same time as Byte.

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