The Bre Pettis Collection of Computer Art
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cover'The Author' -- David H. Ahl bio + acknowledgementsinterior illustrationLOVE (p.105) -- BASIC program that renders a tribute to Robert Indiana's LOVE in ASCII3-D Plot (p.167) -- generative function-plotting by Mark Bramhall, DEC
Scanned bookPhysical copy in the collection

BASIC Computer Games (Microcomputer Edition)

Author
David H. Ahl (ed.)
Year
1978
Publisher
Creative Computing Press / Workman
ISBN
0-89480-052-3
Tags
atariarchives.org · basic · computer-art · concrete-poetry · creative computing · creative-computing · games · generative · owned · physical · pioneers

Notes

Creative Computing Press / Workman, 1978. Full text digitized and published online by Kevin Savetz at atariarchives.org (https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/) with the permission of the copyright holders; this PDF is mirrored from those pages for preservation. © the original authors/publisher. Assembled from the site's page scans. Rights: David H. Ahl placed all his classic computing publications into the public domain in June 2022 (Anne Barela, Adafruit blog, 16 June 2022 — cited on his Wikipedia article). Individual third-party contributions within anthologies may retain their own authors' rights. Provenance: physical copy (VG) ordered 2026-07-20 via AbeBooks #732551249 (Half Price Books, $30.08). The first million-selling computer book. Local scan archived at PDFs/game-books/basic-computer-games-1978.pdf; also on the Internet Archive as basiccomputergam0000unse.