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...

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...

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...

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...

endeavors. Prior to starting Creative Computing, in the early 1970s David H. Ahl was working in the educational department of Digital Equipment Corporation...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ahl is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: David H. Ahl (born 1939), American writer Ernst Ahl (1898–1945), German zoologist Frederick...

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...

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...

Time-Sharing System. DECUS shows no similar program. It appears that David H. Ahl was aware of its origins on the DTSS system and naturally ascribed it...

Merrill Historical MAIN Adaptation of The Sumerian Game. 1975 Hamurabi David H. Ahl Historical MAIN Expanded version of The Sumer Game. Published later as...

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...

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...

"Dave Ahl and Betsy Ahl" (Interview). Ahl, David H. (1973). 101 Basic computer games. Morristown, N.J.: Creative Computing Press. OCLC 896774158. Ahl, David...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

not justify its unreasonable cost" of being shipped on ROM cartridges. David H. Ahl of Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games said in 1983 that the Atari...

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...

each other. Gameplay periodically speeds up to increase the difficulty. David H. Ahl of Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games praised the "amazing realism"...