Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Cackronym

I started off programming on a 16k ZX Spectrum, which my uncle sold cheap to my dad in 1985 saying “you want to get your Gareth into programming, it’s gonna be big.” Turns out he was right.

I had a Speccy from age six until I was 13, when I finally upgraded to an Amiga. I don’t have any of my old tapes digitized - I might have on my old Amiga hard drive but it’s not to hand and I don’t have a TV for it.

For the sake of history I ought to share some anecdotes.

• INKEY$ and his 8 legs
• todo: Books and Mags
• todo: Creating Sprites
• todo: PEEKing and POKEing
• todo: other BASICs
• todo: The evil of Microsoft