David H. Ahl (born May 17, 1939) is an American author who is the founder of Creative Computing magazine. He is also the author of many how-to books, including...
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the BASIC programming language collected by David H. Ahl. Some of the games were written or modified by Ahl as well. Among its better-known games are Hamurabi...
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and BASIC. The original Lunar Landing Game was converted to BASIC by David H. Ahl, who included three versions in his 1973 book 101 BASIC Computer Games...
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of the game as King of Sumeria. This game was expanded on in 1971 by David H. Ahl as Hamurabi, which in turn led to many early strategy and city-building...
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software catalog the following year. It was picked up from there by David H. Ahl, who ported it with Mary Cole to BASIC-PLUS and published the source...
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endeavors. Prior to starting Creative Computing, in the early 1970s David H. Ahl was working in the educational department of Digital Equipment Corporation...
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versions of the game were created for the FOCAL language, but around 1971 David H. Ahl ported it to DEC BASIC and in 1973 published it in 101 BASIC Computer...
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their non-centering joysticks "rendered many games nearly unplayable". David H. Ahl in 1983 described the Atari 5200 as "a 400 computer in disguise". Its...
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Trail with similar titles such as The Yukon Trail and The Amazon Trail. David H. Ahl published Westward Ho!, set on the Oregon Trail in 1848, as a type-in...
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video games were Star Trek simulations designed to run on mainframes. David H. Ahl played such games in the late 1960s at Carnegie Mellon University and...
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in a DEC dialect of BASIC appeared in 101 BASIC Computer Games by David H. Ahl. Ahl said the program "showed up", author unknown, on a G.E. timesharing...
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published through the Atari Program Exchange in 1981 as Lemonade. In 1982 David H. Ahl reviewed the game along with five other business-management simulations...
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Ahl is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: David H. Ahl (born 1939), American writer Ernst Ahl (1898–1945), German zoologist Frederick...
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possible status as the first video game; the editor of Creative Computing, David H. Ahl, had played Tennis for Two at Brookhaven in 1958, and dubbed Higinbotham...
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Merrill Historical MAIN Adaptation of The Sumerian Game. 1975 Hamurabi David H. Ahl Historical MAIN Expanded version of The Sumer Game. Published later as...
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Centipede] Atari cartridge is the best home-arcade edition you can buy".: 28 David H. Ahl of Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games said that the Atari 5200 version...
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see a product appearing on the market with its software ready to run". David H. Ahl stated in Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games in 1983 that "Vector...
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"Dave Ahl and Betsy Ahl" (Interview). Ahl, David H. (1973). 101 Basic computer games. Morristown, N.J.: Creative Computing Press. OCLC 896774158. Ahl, David...
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with the Free Software Community". debian-announce mailing list. Ahl, David. "David H. Ahl biography from Who's Who in America". Retrieved 2009-11-23. Fisher...
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reader to type it in. Type-in programs preceded the home computer era. As David H. Ahl wrote in 1983: In 1971, while education product line manager at Digital...
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2010-03-30 at the Wayback Machine 1983 Epson HX-20 computer., (evaluation) David H. Ahl., CREATIVE COMPUTING VOL. 9, NO. 3 / MARCH 1983 / PAGE 101 vintage-computer...
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based on a description of The Sumerian Game and converted to BASIC by David H. Ahl in 1969. Hamurabi and Space Travel were among several early mainframe...
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games was Rollercoaster, written in BASIC for the Apple II by David Lubar for David H. Ahl, editor of Creative Computing. This was a text adventure that...
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many of whom are professional programmers in their work life. Ahl, David. "David H. Ahl biography from Who's Who in America". Retrieved 2009-11-23. Object...
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almost possible to forget that the program is in black-and-white".: 32 David H. Ahl of Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games reported in 1983 that no test...
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in FOCAL and were looking elsewhere for their systems. This prompted David H. Ahl to hire a programmer to produce a BASIC for the PDP-8 and other DEC machines...
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an installed base of Atari 8-bit computers more than twice as large. David H. Ahl described the 99/4 as "vastly overpriced, particularly considering its...
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programs. Sales of the 1978 rerelease of the book BASIC Computer Games by David H. Ahl that included the source code for over one hundred games, eventually...
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each other. Gameplay periodically speeds up to increase the difficulty. David H. Ahl of Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games praised the "amazing realism"...
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Ahl-i-Hadith or Ahl-e-Hadith (Urdu: اہلِ حدیث, people of hadith) is a Salafi reform movement that emerged in North India in the mid-nineteenth century...
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