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Type-in Mania: An Interactive Archive of Early BASIC Programs

With much help from the Giant List of Classic Programmers. Click on screenshot to go to Github source code directory (WORK IN PROGRESS).

An International Selection of Type-in Programs

ADVENT1	Adventureland by Scott Adams (USA 1978)
ASTRONAV	Astronave Farmer by Mario Pettenghi (Italy 1985)
BATALA	Batala no Mar by Gustavo Jose Ferreira Grubba (Brazil 1985)
CORPSES	Exquisite Corpses by Philippe Henri (France 1984)
CROSWORD	Crossword Maker Ontario Ministry of Ed. (Canada 1981)
CSS	Chess Game by Dieter Steinwender (Germany 1980)
TIMEMACH	Der Tdjmachine by Gerton A Lunter (Netherlands 1988)
DOGSTAR	Dogstar Adventure by Lance Micklus (USA 1979)
ELIZA	Eliza Jeff Shrager (USA 1973)
ENGINEER	Engineer by David J. Bohlke (USA 1979)
FARGOAL	Gammaquest II by Jeff McCord (USA 1981)
HEIANKYO	Heiankyo Alien by T.S.G. (Japan 1979)
HOSLOVAG	A Hös Lovag (Hero Knight) by Miklós Tihor (Hungary 1985)
JOUST	Joust by Clive Gifford (Melbourne House 1984)
LEMON	Lemonade Stand by MECC (USA 1973)
LITTLEBR	Little Brick Out by Steve Wozniak (USA 1977)
MICROBES	Microgouilles by Dominique Laroche (France 1983)
MOUNTAIN	The High Mountains by Paul Braithwaite (UK 1984)
NOSTRO	Nostromo by Masakuni Mitsuhashi (Japan 1981)
OREGON	The Oregon Trail by MECC (USA 1974)
OURANOS	Weather War by Kathy Higby (USA 1980)
PARAVIA	Santa Paravia and Fiumaccio by George Blank (USA 1978)
PITMAN	Pitman by Yutaka Isokawa (Japan 1985)
PRESTAVB	P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A. by Miroslav Fídler (Czech 1988)
RATRUN	1st-person maze by C. T. Nadovich (USA 1979)
ROBOTR29	Robot R29 by Tomasz Rogacewicz (Poland 1991)
ROCKET	Rocket aka LEM by Eric Peters (USA 1978)
ROMP	A Romp in the Garden by Ventzislav Tzvetkov (Bulgaria 2005)
SHOPSTU	Shop Steward by S. N. Goodwin (UK 1980)
STARTRAD	Star Trader by Dave Kaufman (USA 1974)
STTR1	"Star Trek" by Mike Mayfield (USA 1972)
SYLLOGY	Syllogy AI demo by Tim Hartnell (Australia 1986)
TELENGRD	Telengard by Daniel Lawrence (USA 1978)
WIZCASTL	Wizard's Castle by Joseph Power (USA 1980)
WOODS	In the Woods by Ken Fujisawa (Japan 1982)

BASIC Recodings of Classic Programs

CAVERN	Cavern 2160 Takaya Arita (1980)
COLOSSAL	Will Crowther's Colossal Cave Adventure (1977)
EMPIRE	Empire by Walter Bright (1971)
LIFE	John Conway's Famous Life Simulation (1970)
SHOPLIFT	Shoplifting Boy by Hiroshi Suzuki (1979)
SOKOBAN	Sokoban by Hiroyuki Imabayashi (1981)

Academic Societies

Software Preservation Network	Organization to advance software preservation
Software History Centre	Preserves historical software and oral histories
Australasian Digital Heritage	Researchers concerned with the heritage of the born digital

Archive Sites with Playable Games

archive.org	Internet Archive: Vintage BASIC Games Collection
8-bitworkshop.com	Online BASIC (includes runnable Star Traders I helped with)
bbcmicro.co.uk	Complete BBC Micro Games Archive
www.zx81stuff.org.uk	ZX81 Tapes, Hardware and Books Collection

Articles About Type-in Programming

Garrett, Chris (2021)	BASIC BASICS: The BASIC Programming Language
List, Jenny (2019)	The BASIC Issue with Retro Computers Hackaday
Ore, Jonathan (2021)	Here's why saving games matters, CBC Radio, July 15.
Vintage Computing Forums (2017)	Testimonies of Using BASIC Back in the Day
Cass, Stephen (2014)	The Golden Age of BASIC IEEE Spectrum
Godwin, Simon N (2014)	Writing for the early UK Home Computing mags Simon N Goodwin reminiscences
McCracken, Harry (2014)	Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal Time Magazine
Schofield, Jack (2014)	50 years after BASIC, most users still can't or won't program anything ZDNet
Szczepaniak, John (2013)	Steve Wozniak discusses early Apple years and BASIC
owlapps (2012)	BASIC interpreter
Bangeman, Eric (2012)	First encounter: Ohio Challenger 2P (and its 4KB of RAM) Ars Technica
The Digital Antiquarian (2011)	In Defense of BASIC The Digital Antiquarian BLOG
Siegfried Steiner (2024)	How BASIC Democratized Programming for the Masses