Color Basic

since 1980 (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1981)

Color BASIC is the implementation of Microsoft BASIC that is included in the ROM of the Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computers ("CoCos") manufactured between 1980 and 1991.

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1981

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1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

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1990

cloudssanswater

supakoo

jtauber

cherimullins

codewritinfool

cloudssanswater - 6 years

supakoo - 4 years

jtauber - 3 years

cherimullins - 6 years

codewritinfool - 5 years

cloudssanswater

1981–1986

jtauber

1982–1984

TRS-80 CoCo (the original 16K silver) one is the first computer my family owned. A don't remember a huge amount about programming on it but I do remember playing text adventures and wishing I could write my own.

supakoo

1982–1985

Don't remember exact dates, going with JTauber's window. Wrote some serious IF-GOTO spaghetti trying to get a text-based adventure game to work.

cherimullins

1982–1987

codewritinfool

1986–1990

tpherndon

I don't remember precisely when I used this, and I can't say I really understood what I was doing, but I typed in a couple of games from the magazines, and got them to run.

alelondon

darkpixel