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Lost 1983 programming language resurrected by retro computing YouTube channel
Microtext for the Commodore might have been lost forever if not for the sleuthing of Christian Simpson's Retro Recipes.
A campy trailer for the channel is styled after the 1980s TV show Knight Rider, calling it “a pixelated flight into the nostalgic world of a man whose tech no longer exists.” It replaced all those complex commands that you would use for programming with really simple ones, and let you produce really cool-looking stuff.” In his 1987 review, he’d applauded its ease of use and versatility, calling the language both “pleasing to look at and to use.” And in an inspiring coda, Simpson says he even made contact with Diane Murray, who’d worked on the 1983 version of MicroText for the BBC Micro home computer back when she was a Civil Service Science Officer.
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