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' From math tricks to full arcade games

' Simple code, real results

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FUN EXAMPLES IN PLAN9BASIC

Learn by doing — from one-liners to full applets. Each example is a complete, runnable program you can paste and play with.

50

examples

18

backend

12

frontend

20

AI examples

9

arcade games

AI EXAMPLES WORK WITH:

OllamaLOCAL & FREE

AnthropicCLOUD

OpenAICLOUD

GroqCLOUD

DeepSeekCLOUD

+ xAI · Together · Fireworks · lmStudio · Jan

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BACKEND & DATA

Math, strings, arrays, dictionaries, files, databases, networking

18 examples

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FRONTEND & VISUAL

GUI applications, games, animations, visual effects, drawing, AI integration

12 examples

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ARCADE GAMES

Full games written in Plan9Basic — desktop & mobile, keyboard & touch

11 games

Not a mockup

Tractor, running

A fixed shooter written from nothing for this project. Every ship is drawn by the program from rectangles and ellipses — there is no image file in it anywhere. Find it in the cards above ↑

Tractor: the formation settled, three kinds of enemy in place — The formation. Enemies fly in along curved paths and settle into a grid that breathes. Blue darts at the back, orange escorts, and the green leaders at the corners — the only ones that can take your fighter.

Tractor: RESCUED, and two fighters flying side by side — The rescue. A leader took that fighter and paid for it on its next dive. Two hulls now, two shots a volley — and twice the width to be hit in, which is the bargain.

Not a mockup

Space Mines, running

Ten years running a mining colony on Astron, converted from a 1982 Usborne type-in listing. The rules are the book’s; the panel is not. Find it in the cards above ↑

The Plan9Basic IDE beside the Space Mines applet it is running — The IDE on the left, the applet it launched on the right.

Space Mines at year one, refusing a food budget the treasury cannot cover — Year one. The line under the fields costs a plan out as it is typed — here refusing a food budget the treasury cannot cover, before a single year is committed.

Space Mines ending early: fewer than ten people to a mine — Year six. One more mine put the colony under ten people to a mine, and the 1982 rule ended it there. The figures carry what the year cost: 700 tons gone, output down eleven.

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AI INTEGRATION

20 examples ordered by complexity — from a single API call to full applications.

20 examples