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BASIC Engine

BASIC Engine is a family of very low-cost single-board computers with great 2D color graphics and sound capabilities similar to late-1980s to mid-1990s computers and video game consoles.

• BASIC Engine (Official)
• BASIC Engine (Forum)
• BASIC Engine (Wiki)

This family includes:

• “Classic” (home-brew) based on the ESP8266.
• BASIC Engine NG (Next Generation).
• BASIC Engine RX.
• BASIC Engine LT.

Additionally, it is now possible to run on Linux, OSX, Win32 and RaspberryPi; see here.

Engine BASIC RX

You interact with the BASIC Engine computers through the class boot-to-BASIC environment in a dialect called Engine BASIC RX. There’s also an excellent introduction for the “absolute beginner to BASIC programming on BASIC Engine”!

Resources

• uli’s basicengine-demos repo
• peek82’s BASIC_Engine_Software repo
• bitartrate BASIC-Engine_Programs repo
• 8bitforlife.com (archived)
• Basic Engine NG Asteroids

Videos

• Basic Engine by Projekt Produkt!
• uhecht
  • Screen Recording with the BASIC Engine RX
  • BASIC Engine Tetris demo
  • BASIC Engine Shmup demo
• Mark Strickland
  • BASIC Engine RX - A Very Quick New Feature Test
  • BASIC Engine Fake Color Cycling
  • BASIC Engine NG - Fake Gravity Testing #1
  • Kozmick Raiders: Act 1 - Just A Simple Scaling & Movement Test
  • BASIC Engine NG Gamepad & Mouse Tester
  • BASIC Engine NG - Very Simple Mouse & Sprite Pointer Demo
  • BASIC Engine NG Testing
  • BASIC Engine NG - A Quick Blit Test
  • BASIC Engine Retro Computer - BASIC Progress Meter
  • BASIC Engine Retro Computer - Blitter Test #1
  • BASIC Engine Retro Computer - Archimedes Spiral
  • BASIC Engine Retro Computer - Ahl’s Benchmark
  • BASIC Engine Retro Computer - Five Minute Session
• BASIC Engine Retro Computer - Ahl’s Benchmark
• Basic Engine NG Asteroids
• Sokoban on Basic Engine LT (Orange Pi PC)
• Sokoban on Basic Engine RX (Orange Pi PC)
• “platformer” demo