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As the popularity of BASIC grew in this period, magazines ( such as Creative Computing in the US ) published complete source code in BASIC for games, utilities, and other programs.

Given BASIC's straightforward nature, it was a simple matter to type in the code from the magazine and execute the program.

Different magazines were published featuring programs for specific computers, though some BASIC programs were considered universal and could be used in machines running any variant of BASIC ( sometimes with minor adaptations ).

Many books of type-in programs were also available, and in particular, Ahl published versions of the original 101 BASIC games converted into the Microsoft dialect and published it from Creative Computing as " BASIC Computer Games ".

This book, and its sequels, provided hundreds of ready-to-go programs that could be easily converted to practically any BASIC-running platform .< ref >