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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: https://forum.ugbasic.iwashere.eu/viewforum.php?f=8
  • Soko64 - fun puzzle game written in ugBASIC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwuryS6pvKU
• Other Links
  • 101 BASIC PROGRAMS FOR MICROCOMPUTERS: https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/
  • Floppy Days Podcast: https://www.floppydays.com 
  • ANTIC Podcast: https://www.ataripodcast.com

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/mattmikolay/chip-8/wiki/CHIP%E2%80%908-Technical-Reference
• IDE for creating CHIP-8 programs:
• https://johnearnest.github.io/Octo/
• Writing programs for CHIP-8 using Octo IDE:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-G6Dm5AX3I
• Awesome CHIP-8 - list of CHIP-8 resources
• https://chip-8.github.io/links/ 
• CHIP-8 program archive
• https://github.com/JohnEarnest/chip8Archive 
• CHIP-8 Computer
• https://chip-8.com/ 
• CHIP-8 Extensions and Compatibility
• https://chip-8.github.io/extensions/#a-note-on-modern-implementations 
• EZ-Pack: Convert large images into CHIP-8 Sprites
• https://beyondloom.com/tools/ezpack.html
• EZ-Writer: Compose text strings to fit a CHIP-8 or SCHIP display, with a variety of fonts
• https://beyondloom.com/tools/ezwriter.html
• EZ-Bake Animator: Pre-generate Octo-compatible graphics programmatically
• https://beyondloom.com/tools/ezbake.html
• C-Octo: Develop Octo programs from the command line
• https://github.com/JohnEarnest/c-octo
• For MacOS and Windows - Dorito
• https://github.com/lesharris/dorito?tab=readme-ov-file
• For Windows - CHIP-8 emulator on Github
• https://github.com/massung/CHIP-8/releases
• Octojam
• https://itch.io/jam/octojam-10
• https://beyondloom.com/blog/octojam.html
• Emma 02 emulator
• https://www.emma02.hobby-site.com/index.html
• Can use RCA tab, COSMIC VIP option, for original CHIP-8 emulation

This is the 2nd episode in an update on what it's like to build a dream home in Mexico and my experiences so far.

If you have been listening to me for any length of time, you know that I’m currently developing a large property in central Mexico.  Well in this episode I’ll do an update on where I’m at, what I’ve learned so far in the process and the trials & tribulations of doing what most people would fear to do, but to keep an eye on the epic results you can achieve if you are careful.

After selling our rental real estate, we were left with few forms of smart income.  I began searching for alternatives.  I realized that for the next few years, much of my time would be spent outside of the USA, so I needed something that didn’t require me to be physically present to manage them, but paid me a tidy sum each month.  This led me to dividend stocks, and so far I am very happy with the results.

In 2008, at the height of the global financial crisis in the US, I was heavily exposed to real estate debt due to some deals that had been done in the prior year, and ran the risk of being entirely wiped out. If it wasn’t for having assets in another country and sold them to fund the underwater position I found myself in, I would never have survived it. In this episode, I want to fast forward to 2023 and explain why you MUST have an international diversification strategy for your assets if you wish to mitigate the risk of an adverse event in your country.

Central planners are at it again. The fear of a ‘housing crisis’ has empowered government to create government housing by proxy. By using building regulations as a weapon, AZ government has created a trajectory towards 1970s style ghetto housing reminiscent of the low income apartments of Brooklyn. This model seems to be a reflection of the California model, which didn’t work either. Is this what we want in America and how is this happening?

It is now the third quarter of 2023, and already the media are gearing up to distract you, extort your attention and pumble your brain with more FUD, and anxiety than ever before.  This is all in the lead up to the US 2024 Presidential Election.  Regardless of the barrage of lies and distorted facts you will be subjected to, in this episode I want to give you a set of tricks you can use to hack the media and keep your sanity through these trying times.

You work hard, you earn money, but you are broke.  Why?  In this episode I’m going to put out there a theory in the western world why people are broke, and it isn’t the reasons the media and society will tell you. It is not rampant inflation.  It is not that you are not paid enough.  It is actually far simpler – it is about the decisions you make, and the fight to control your mind.

• 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-basic-cbm-flavor/id394924289
• Hotpaw BASIC (iPad) - $4.99 - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hotpaw-basic/id295464266
• See: http://www.hotpaw.com/rhn/basic/iphone/  for a more complete description of the Basic language syntax
• Smart BASIC (iOS/Mac) by Nikolay Denislamov $11.99 - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/basic-programming-language/id1540244170
• BASIC implementations for Android
• "BASIC Programming Compiler" - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.krazeapps.basicprogrammingcompiler
• BASIC implementations for MacOS:
• PC-BASIC - (Windows/Mac/Linux/Python) -  https://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/
• BBC BASIC by Richard Russell - https://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic.html
• PureBASIC - also Linux, Windows, RPi, AmigaOS 4 - https://www.purebasic.com/
• Chipmunk BASIC - https://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/
• BASIC implementations for Windows:
• Vintage BASIC - http://www.vintage-basic.net/download.html
• SpecBAS - https://github.com/ZXDunny/SpecBAS
• https://hackaday.com/2021/05/10/sinclair-basic-for-today/
• SmallBASIC - https://smallbasic-publicwebsite.azurewebsites.net/
• QB64 - https://qb64.com/ - Windows, Linux, MacOS
• FreeBASIC - https://www.freebasic.net/
• BASIC implementations for Linux:
• Matrix Brandy BASIC VI - http://brandy.matrixnetwork.co.uk/
• Also check out this BBC BASIC reference -  http://www.riscos.com/support/developers/bbcbasic/index.html
• BASIC implementations for Web Browser:
• SPIDERBASIC - https://www.spiderbasic.com/ (Web/desktop)
• Applesoft BASIC in Javascript - https://inexorabletash.github.io/jsbasic/
• Quite BASIC - http://www.quitebasic.com/prj/games/hangman/
• Applesoft BASIC Editor CyanIIDE - https://paleotronic.com/applesoft/
• wwwBASIC - https://github.com/google/wwwbasic
• https://hackaday.com/2018/09/17/its-the-web-basically/