Show 016 - Retro Development Survey

Randy and Earl share the results of our listener survey on retro computer development, favorite languages, and more!

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• News/Personal Projects
• AtariAge Forum post on CubeDot for Atari 8-bit systems - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/387935-cubedot-fuji-do-fuji-poo-dr-love-and-total-recall/
•  15th Edition of BASIC 10 Liner Contest for 8-bit computers has started. The Deadline for submissions is Sunday, March 22, 2026 - https://t.co/eeno5J8fak
• ABBUC (Atari Bit-Byter User Club) Game and Application Software Contests:
• ABBUC - https://www.abbuc.de 
  
  ABBUC Application Software Competition 2026 - deadline for submissions: March 1, 2026 - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/387745-abbuc-application-software-competition-2026-has-been-launched/ 
  
  ABBUC Game Software Competition 2026 - deadline for submissions July 31, 2026 - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/387744-abbuc-software-competition-2026-has-been-launched/  
• Show Topic
• No links related to the main topic. Thanks to everyone who submitted responses for our survey - this show wouldn't have been possible without you!
• Other Links
• Join the NWF crew on Discord! https://discord.gg/XAWv7PAFH4

Show 015 - Atari 8-Bit Programming

Randy and Earl discuss the various options for modern programming on Atari 8-bit systems, including the Atari 400/800 and their successors!

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• News/Personal Projects
• RP2040 Geek - https://www.waveshare.com/rp2040-geek.htm
  
• z80pack on Waveshare RP2040-GEEK/RP2350-GEEK - https://github.com/udo-munk/RP2xxx-GEEK-80
• Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition - https://csscgc2025.blogspot.com/
• Article about the Crap Games competition on The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/jul/06/people-competing-to-make-the-worst-computer-games-possible
• Show Topic
• Action! programming language - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Action
  
• FastBASIC programming language - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=FastBasic
• ATR disk image for the Atari 8-bit computers and binaries of the cross-compiler for different platforms for FastBASIC - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/378307-fastbasic-47-is-here/
• Visual Studio Code extension for FastBASIC - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EricCarr.fastbasic-debugger
• FastBASIC manual - https://github.com/dmsc/fastbasic/blob/master/manual.md
  
• Getting Altirra Running on macOS Sequoia 15.x (Andy Diller) - https://www.atariorbit.org/2024/12/26/altirra-arm-and-sequoia/
• MADS Assembler and MADS Pascal - https://mads.atari8.info/
• WUDSN IDE - https://www.wudsn.com/index.php/ide
• YouTube WUDSN tutorial with MADS and Atari 8-bit - https://www.wudsn.com/index.php/productions-atari800/tutorials
  
• Interview with Peter Dell, author of WUDSN - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-27-the-atari-8-bit-podcast-peter-dell-wudsn 
  
• General information on 6502 - http://6502.org/
• Various online books for Atari, including De Re Atari and others - https://www.atariarchives.org/
• AtariAge 8-bit programming forum - https://forums.atariage.com/forum/51-atari-5200-8-bit-programming/
• Lots of great info on Atari 8-bit, including reference cards - https://gury.atari8.info/index.php
• ca65 assembler - https://cc65.github.io/doc/ca65.html
• Virtual 6502 Assembler - https://www.masswerk.at/6502/assembler.html
• Milfork Assembler - https://github.com/KarolS/millfork
• Mac/65 Assembler - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Mac65
• Atasm Assembler - https://github.com/CycoPH/atasm 
• Xasm Assembler - https://github.com/pfusik/xasm
• Atmas-II Cross Assembler - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Atmas%20II 
• Notepad++ - https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
• UltraEdit - https://www.ultraedit.com/
• 8BitWorkshop online IDE - https://8bitworkshop.com/
• TurboBASIC XL - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Turbo-BASIC%20XL 
• BASIC parser for TurboBASIC XL - https://github.com/dmsc/tbxl-parser
• Other Links
• Join the NWF crew on Discord! https://discord.gg/XAWv7PAFH4

Show 014 - The History of BASIC

Randy and Earl cover the history of the BASIC programming language, including its origins, and the wide adoption of BASIC on 8-bit systems in the 1970s and 1980s!

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• News
• BASIC 10-Liner Contest - https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium
• Show Topic
• “Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer” by Michael Swaine, Paul Freiberger (associate link) - https://amzn.to/3EzdPCp 
• Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC 
• “Sophistication & Simplicity: The Life and Times of the Apple II Computer” by Stephen Weyrich - https://amzn.to/4hFGkNy 
• “iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It” by Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith - https://amzn.to/42ZhBzc 
• “Commodore: A Company on the Edge” by Brian Bagnall - https://amzn.to/4gHvfdu 
• "101 Basic Computer Games" by David H. Ahl - https://amzn.to/3QitZTg or “101 BASIC Computer Games: Microcomputer Edition” - https://amzn.to/4hABxwT 
•  “BASIC Session”:The ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages (HOPL) conference In Los Angeles, CA, June 1-3, 1978 - https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800025.1198404 
• 2006 Salon Article - Why Johnny Can't Code - https://www.salon.com/2006/09/14/basic_2/
• Microsoft Small Basic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Small_Basic
• Basic-256 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic-256
• Quite Basic - https://www.quitebasic.com/
• Dartmouth held a 50th anniversary celebration for BASIC on May 1st, 2014.  A short documentary film was produced for the event:
• https://www.dartmouth.edu/basicfifty/ 
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxo9LVIgOiI 
• Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal By Harry McCraken in Time magazine - http://time.com/69316/basic/
• Other Links
• Join the NWF crew on Discord! https://discord.gg/XAWv7PAFH4

Show 013 - ugBASIC

Randy and Earl talk about ugBASIC, and Randy interviews the author/creator!

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• 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

Show 012 - CHIP-8

Episode 012 of Next Without For, CHIP-8, is posted!

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References/Links:

• 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
  

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Show 011 - Using BASIC on Modern Hardware

Episode 011 of Next Without For, Using BASIC on Modern Hardware, is posted!

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References/Links:

• 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/

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Show 010 - Assembly Language, Part II

Episode 010 of Next Without For, Assembly Language Part II, is posted!

In this episode, Randy and Earl continue the discussion of Assembly Language! If you missed the first part, be sure to check out Show 009.

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References/Links:

• FastBasic for Atari 8-bit systems:
• https://github.com/dmsc/fastbasic
• Kathleen Booth Obituary and Wikipedia pages
• https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/29/kathleen_booth_obit/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Booth
• 6502.org - a great resource for 6502 programming and projects
• http://6502.org/
• Z80 software development tools
• http://www.z80.info/z80sdt.htm
• 
  

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Show 009 - Assembly Language Part I

Episode 009 of Next Without For, Assembly Language Part I, is posted!

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References/Links:

More links coming in Part II.

• FastBasic for Atari 8-bit systems:
• https://github.com/dmsc/fastbasic

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Show 008 - 64 Bites

Episode 008 of Next Without For, 64 Bites, is posted!

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References/Links:

• 64 Bites main website: https://64bites.com/
• 64spec (6502/Commodore64 Testing Framework for KickAssembler): https://github.com/64bites/64spec 
• Poland demoscene party: PixelHeaven - https://www.pixelheavenfest.com/en/ 
• KickAssembler: http://www.theweb.dk/KickAssembler/Main.html#frontpage 
• VICE: https://vice-emu.sourceforge.io/ 
• RetroDebugger: https://vice-emu.sourceforge.io/ 
• 64 Bites gift for our listeners (thanks!):  https://64bites.com/nextwithoutfor 
• YouTube series on building and programming a 16-bit Intel x86 breadboard computer: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcGZbzUhfcJbEazYYKUgdnEskZa5PX86N
• MSXDev contest links:
• https://www.vintageisthenewold.com/msxdev-2022-gets-its-first-entry-shadow-switcher
• https://www.msxdev.org/msxdev22/
• BASIC contest for the ZX Spectrum links:
• VITNO announcement: https://www.vintageisthenewold.com/a-different-basic-contest-for-the-zx-spectrum-can-land-you-a-zx-uno
• Arca Lusitana announcement: http://arcalusitana.fun/MuseuZX/Pascalated_BASIC/Concurso2022_ENG.html
• 2022 Pascalated BASIC contest links:
• Planeta Sinclair Blog: https://planetasinclair.blogspot.com/
• Arca Lusitana: http://arcalusitana.fun/MuseuZX/index.html
• Teknamic Softtware: https://teknamic.com/
• Espectro Magazine: https://revistaespectro.com/
• Museu LOAD ZX Spectrum: https://loadzx.com/
• Lovebyte Party contest links:
• https://files.scene.org/browse/parties/2022/lovebyte22/
• https://www.demoparty.net/lovebyte/lovebyte-2022
• Memotech MTX computer (from feedback): http://www.mtxworld.dk/
• Feedback can be sent to nextwithoutfor@retrobits.com, earl@retrobits.com, or randall.kindig@gmail.com.

Show 007 - Contests

Episode 007 of Next Without For, Programming Contests, is posted!

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References/Links:

• Feedback can be sent to nextwithoutfor@retrobits.com, earl@retrobits.com, or randall.kindig@gmail.com.
• FujiNet programming for the Coleco Adam and Atari 8-bit computers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWSmMqzmiyw&t=3s
• FujiNet-enabled Connect 4 game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehF68h_BD0M&t=1s
• BASIC 10 Liners competition: https://basic10liner.com
• NOMAM event (where the BASIC 10 Liners is judged): https://abbuc-de.translate.goog/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=299&sid=0bf48e23b7124e4e6b215791cf51784e&_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
• RetroChallenge: https://www.retrochallenge.org/
• Hackfest at KansasFest: https://www.kansasfest.org/hackfest/
• ABBUC Software Competition: https://abbuc.de/aktivitaten/software-competition/
• ABBUC Software Contest 2020: https://demozoo.org/parties/4078/
• Atari Homebrew Awards: https://twitter.com/Philsan69/status/1485734156424392704?cxt=HBwWgMC5hf7VsZ4pAAAA&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw==&refsrc=email
• ZeroPage Homebrew Twitch stream: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/
• The annual CGC  is always announced on the Usenet newsgroup as well as on the web forums over at World of Spectrum: https://worldofspectrum.org/forums
• 2021 Crap Games competition site: https://www.rickdangerous.co.uk/csscgc2021/index.html
• 2022 Crap Games competition site: http://crapgamescompetition2022.great-site.net/?i=1

Show 006 - SNOBOL

Episode 006 of Next Without For, SNOBOL, is posted!

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References/Links:

• SNOBOL reference site - https://www.snobol4.org/ 
• Online SNOBOL4 compiler in a browser - https://tio.run/#snobol4 
• Generational list of programming languages (Wikipedia)
• Macro SNOBOL4 in C 
• http://www.snobol4.com/ - commercial implementation of SNOBOL called SPITBOL from Catspaw
• SNOBOL4+ was Catspaw's flagship product - Free 16-bit SNOBOL4+ for MS-DOS.
• Catspaw's more limited but free Vanilla SNOBOL4 
• Vanilla SNOBOL4 comes with excellent documentation.
• Minnesota SNOBOL4 (http://www.berstis.com/snobol4.htm )
• SPITBOL 360 is an implementation of the SNOBOL4 programming language for use on IBM 360 compatible computers.
• SNOBOL at Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL 
• Dave Farber at LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/davefarber/ , email: dave@farber.net 
• https://wiki.c2.com/?SnobolLanguage 
• History of Programming Languages. A History of the SNOBOL Programming Languages , 1978 - http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a404/c09b14e2b03496604387f532fd33975179ec.pdf 
• The “Green Book”, “The SNOBOL4 Programming Language”, second edition, by Griswold, Poage and Polonsky. https://ftp.snobol4.org/misc/ftp.cs.arizona.edu/gb.pdf 
• SNOBOL4 T-shirt - http://www.snobol4.com/tshirt.htm  Get It Before It Gets You!
• SNOBOL mailing list at groups.io - https://groups.io/g/snobol 
• Dr. Dobbs - Programs That Transform Their Own Source Code; or: the Snobol Foot Joke - https://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/programs-that-transform-their-own-source/228701469 
• https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/joke/foot.htm 
• SNOBOL - You grab your foot with your hand, then rewrite your hand to be a bullet. The act of shooting the original foot then changes your hand/bullet into yet another foot (a left foot).
• When searching for SNOBOL on Amazon, a couple of weird references come up:
• Don't Panic! I'm A Professional SNOBOL Programmer: Customized Lined Notebook Journal Gift For A Qualified SNOBOL Developer Paperback - Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Panic-Professional-SNOBOL-Programmer/dp/B09DMTT21L A funny customized lined notebook journal for a hard working SNOBOL Programmer . Give this keepsake book to a colleague, friend or family member, instead of a throw away greeting card to show how much they are appreciated.

• SNOBOL Programming: Lined Notebook Journal, Awesome Gift for Programmers, Software Developers, and IT Professionals - Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/SNOBOL-Programming-Programmers-Developers-Professionals/dp/B09CC67LDW 

Show 005 - Programming the TI 58 and 59

Episode 005 of Next Without For, Programming the TI 58 and 59, is posted!

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Links from the episode:

Emulators:

• http://ti58c.phweb.me/ TI-58C emulator for Windows in various languages
• Emulator for the iPhone and iPad: RCL-59 http://n3times.com/rcl/ios/ 
• Vertigo -- a TI-59 emulator - requires Java 1.1 browser - http://n3times.com/vertigo/# 
• TI-59/64 by Claudio Larini updated as recently as 2020 for 32/64-bit Windows - http://www.claudiolarini.altervista.org/emul1.htm

Programs for the TI-58C: http://ti58c.phweb.me/ Pierre Houbert

Compilers:

• TI Compiler with TI Shell - https://gtello.pagesperso-orange.fr/ti58_e.htm by Guillaume Tello
• TCompiler - https://ti59compiler.wixsite.com/ti59 by Philippe Tivolle

http://www.claudiolarini.altervista.org/bax59.htm Dartmouth BASIC compiler based on a thesis paper referenced in the episode.

Show 004 - Turbo Rascal

Episode 004 of Next Without For, Turbo Rascal, is posted!

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Links from the episode:

PunyInform - a new library for writing text adventures for old computers: https://vintageisthenewold.com/punyinform-a-new-library-for-writing-text-adventures-for-old-computers/

 

Ozmoo: A Z-machine interpreter for the Commodore 64 - https://github.com/johanberntsson/ozmoo/ 

Hackaday article on Z-machines: https://hackaday.com/2019/05/22/zork-and-the-z-machine-bringing-the-mainframe-to-8-bit-home-computers/ 

CBM .PRG Studio: http://www.ajordison.co.uk/

Turbo Rascal SE: https://lemonspawn.com/turbo-rascal-syntax-error-expected-but-begin/

List of systems supported by TRSE: https://lemonspawn.com/support-sheet/

TRSE on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/742955836046459

TRSE Showcases : https://lemonspawn.com/gallery

TRSE Promo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7z5kqbo9HM

TRSE Slack channel for devtalk : turborascal.slack.com

Show 003 - Fortran

Episode 003 of Next Without For, Fortran, is posted!

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Links from the episode:

The History of Fortran I, II, and III: John Backus - ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 13, No. 8, August 1978: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/paper/p165-backus.pdf

Wikipedia articles:
Fortran - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran
IBM 704 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_704

FORTRAN - the Pioneering Programming Language: https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/fortran/

TIOBE Language Index: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Abstracting Away the Machine: The History of the Fortran Programming Language, Mark Jones Lorenzo, published 2019 - https://www.amazon.com/Abstracting-Away-Machine-Programming-TRANslation/dp/1082395943/

The most comprehensive account of Fortran history in a single document:
Fortran IV Programming for Engineers and Scientists, Second Edition, by Paul W. Murrill & Cecil L. Smith, published 1973 - https://www.amazon.com/Fortran-Programming-Murrill-Cecil-Smith/dp/B0015G0N0U

Fortran 77: A Structured, Disciplined Style, by Gordon B. Davis and Thomas R. Hoffman - https://www.amazon.com/Fortran-77-Structured-Disciplined-Style/dp/0070159033

Theory and Problems of Programming with Fortran Including Structured Fortran, Schaum’s Outline Series, by Seymour Lipschutz and Arthur Poe - https://www.amazon.com/Schaums-Problems-Programming-Including-Structured/dp/B000MHO8SQ

The Fortran I Compiler (PDF) - https://web.stanford.edu/class/archive/cs/cs339/cs339.2002/fortran.pdf

Show 002 - Randy and Earl

Episode 002 of Next Without For, Randy and Earl, is posted!

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Links from the episode:

No links this time! Randy and I just chat about our programming background and cover some upcoming topics.

Show 001 - Turbo Pascal 3

Episode 001 of Next Without For, on Turbo Pascal 3 for CP/M, is posted!

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Links from the episode:

Site Of The Month - The Aztec C Museum
http://www.aztecmuseum.ca/compilers.htm

Antique Software at the Embarcadero website (Turbo Pascal free versions)
http://edn.embarcadero.com/museum/antiquesoftware

Pascal language standards on Pascal Central
http://pascal-central.com/standards.html

Turbo Pascal: A Great Choice For Programming Under CP/M (blog page for getting started with Turbo Pascal 3 under CP/M)
http://techtinkering.com/2013/03/05/turbo-pascal-a-great-choice-for-programming-under-cpm/

Walnut Creek CP/M CD-ROM archive for Turbo Pascal
http://www.retroarchive.org/cpm/cdrom/CPM/TURBOPAS/

Now available on iTunes

The Next Without For podcast was approved today, and is now available on iTunes!

- Earl

Show 000 - dBase III Plus version 1.1

Greetz from rainy Portland Oregon!

The first episode of Next Without For, Show 000, is posted! The topic is dBase III Plus version 1.1.

Episode 000 is here:

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Hope you enjoy the episode! Chat with you all soon,

- Earl

P.S. - Links from the episode:

AtariAge 5200/8-Bit Programming section
http://atariage.com/forums/forum/51-atari-5200-8-bit-programming/

Vintage Computer Forums, Retro Podcast Discussions
http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/forumdisplay.php?83-Retro-Podcasts-Discussion

The theme song for Next Without For is "AFAIK" by Sum-1, from the album "Mechanical Monkeys", and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. More info at: http://www.jamendo.com/en/list/a22917/mechanical-monkeys

The Next Without For podcast is Copyright 2013, and licensed to the public under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

Welcome to Next Without For

Hi there! Glad to see you!

Next Without For is a podcast dedicated to computer language implementations that are either (a) retro, or (b) new, but used for retro computers. Examples include Turbo Pascal, BDS C, CC65, etc.

At the outset, the goal is to publish one episode per month. Episodes will be staggered with other members of the Retrobits family of podcasts:

The Retrobits Podcast (general retrocomputing podcast)
Chicken Lips Radio (for Commodore computer systems)

Hope you'll stick around, and enjoy the podcast!

- Earl