C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Stairs, Levels and Levelling Up (Part 11)
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C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Stairs, Levels and Levelling Up (Part 11) was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 2, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 45 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #19 of 30, reached on Nov 3, 02:37 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 3, 06:22 UTC.
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A period, multiplatform alternative: Usborne's Write Your Own Fantasy Games by Les Howarth and Cheryl Evans from 1984 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxv0SsvibDMTel93SThEYkJkZHc . (Generously provided by Usborne https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books )
For those as confused as I was, the BASIC as written will not run on a C64 (two immediate notes: BASIC 2.0 doesn't have labels, and a variable like STATS would be illegal because it clashes with the status word ST). This only works in their custom IDE which "compiles" (read "adds line numbers, alters names and…
What a brilliant machine, it easily has the most active scene of any retro computer going at this point. It's a bit of a shame about the BASIC not taking better advantage of the hardware though. OTOH a lot of the brilliant programmers of today's era cut their teeth on the C64 (and Apple IIs) and probably had to…
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Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 3, 06:22 UTC, after 2 days of trending.
What is the highest rank C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Stairs, Levels and Levelling Up (Part 11) reached?
#19 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 3, 02:37 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
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It was first seen on Nov 2, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (45 checks) since.
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71 points and 11 comments; submitted by ibobev on Nov 2, 2026.