#TinyBASIC
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #TinyBASIC from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-12 05:33 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
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Live pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-12 05:33 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~2125 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 01:00
Languages: English (40)
Avg boosts / post: 2.4
Top of the latest posts
We have roughly one half of our stock left on our zine listing on Etsy! #TinyBASIC #retrocomputing #commodore64 #c64 #basic #zine #zines https://dandelionbasic.etsy.com/listing/4520511258
Working on a new game with my girlfriend. As yet no title. We are going to be taking the game engine from "Oats for my goats", and adding custom 8x8 pixel characters to the mix. Tentatively writing for the BBC Micro. Will be written in BASI
Still thinking about systems with tiny amounts of computing resources. There is a surprising number of things you can do with 4K BASIC, and definitely 8K BASIC. I would have to check the case of 4KB RAM, but with 8K BASIC you have roughly 5
What “tinybasic” means
WikipediaTiny BASIC is a family of dialects of the BASIC programming language that can fit into 4 or fewer KBs of memory. Tiny BASIC was designed by Dennis Allison and the People's Computer Company (PCC) in response to the open letter published by Bill Gates complaining about users pirating Altair BASIC, which sold for $150. Tiny BASIC was intended to be a completely free version of BASIC that would run on the same early microcomputers.
“Tiny BASIC” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#tinybasic across platforms
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