The annual BASIC 10-liner competition was invented in 2011 by Gunnar Kanold, a retrocomputing enthusiast who is teaching STEM disciplines at a secondary school in Friedrichstadt, Germany. The goal of the contest is to write the most exciting computer game in just 10 lines of BASIC, without machine code subroutines. There are three categories limiting the maximum line length allowed: PUR-80, PUR-120, and PUR-256. There is also SCHAU-256 category for non-game software, and WILD for submissions not fitting into any other category. Program should run on a 8-bit computer — such as Atari, for which an emulator exists.

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In the late 1970s, the first personal microcomputers appeared, as well as a separate class of devices - word processors. These were microcomputers with specialized software focused exclusively on editing and printing texts.

In far 1988, being a sixth-grader, I became for the first time, acquainted with the computer. The DVK-3M with the integrated black-and-white display and two five-inch disk drives; gorgeous but not for now. My first acquaintance took place with games from ASP corp. ─ three young programmers who had specialized in computers of the DVK family.

I decided to make an exact remake of the Robbo game in pure HTML and JS just to be able to play it again right on the museum site.

Mr.Robbo is a game for the ZX Spectrum, developed by the Mariupol group ISI based on the original Polish game Robbo for the Atari computer

Amiga Rulez - Amiga Madness. The ultimate dream of any IT specialist, although in the 90s such a term did not yet exist.

This platform appeared in the first computer clubs almost simultaneously with the Atari XL / XE and was also not available for purchase at that time for the general consumer.

Atari computers were too expensive for us, and even in the era of the USSR, they were practically impossible to get for an ordinary person. But fortunately, enterprising citizens brought these computers to us and opened the first computer clubs during perestroika.

In the distant 90s, clones of the ZX Spectrum computer were available to us, which was in almost every home by the middle of the decade.