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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ I personally had my first fleeting experience with BASIC on a Commodore-64 at a
 
 My next brush with BASIC was on an Amiga A600, although this time it was with a variant called Dark BASIC. Once again my memory is quite hazy but I remember typing out from a book a program that simulated a ball bouncing along the screen.
 
-![Basic Computer Games - Microcomputer edition](/img/happy-fiftyth-birthday-basic-1.png "Basic Computer Games - Microcomputer edition")
+{% figure "/img/happy-fiftyth-birthday-basic-1.png" "Genuinely one of my most cherished books" "Basic Computer Games - Microcomputer edition" %}
 
 That book in question was a large yellow one titled Basic Computer Games - Microcomputer edition[^1]. The _"game"_ I remember typing out all those years ago is called *Bounce* and can be found on page 24. 
 
@@ -29,23 +29,23 @@ After my brief foray with BASIC on the Amiga and having been donated a Toshiba T
 
 I had no access to the internet at the time and still being quite young no money to purchase books. This meant that the only resources that I had available to me where my fathers old QBasic reference and a couple of BASIC books from the 70s. It took a while for me to figure out that there were different versions of BASIC and that some things just would not work on my version without some modification. 
 
-![Microsoft Quick Basic - QBasic](/img/happy-fiftyth-birthday-basic-2.png "Microsoft Quick Basic - QBasic")
+{% figure "/img/happy-fiftyth-birthday-basic-2.png" "This was my first IDE experience, except more plasma orange" "Microsoft Quick Basic - QBasic" %}
 
 Even with a lack of external resources, I still managed to make some simple games. These where mostly text based simulations or adventures. Although I did write a small _operating system_ that ran on top of MS-DOS with a pipe character interface and some 2-bit icons[^2] with which to access my newly created programs!
 
 Eventually as time went on we ended up with a family desktop computer running Windows 98 and a copy of Visual Basic. I had also at this point in time managed to obtain from various charity shops several old Usborne programming books, most notably one from 1982 titled Computer Space-games.
 
-![Usborne Programming Books](/img/happy-fiftyth-birthday-basic-3.png "Usborne Programming Books")
+{% figure "/img/happy-fiftyth-birthday-basic-3.png" "Do they still make books this technical for children?" "Usborne Programming Books" %}
 
 The Computer Spacegames book is full of short, yet fun games, however there is one game that stands out in my mind as a real gem and that is _Space Mines_. Starting on page 24 of Computer Space-games, this game covered two pages of the book with pretty illustrations throughout. Back in 2009 I got in touch with a chap called [Ted Felix](http://www.tedfelix.com/books/index.html) whom kindly both obtained a copy of the book and emailed me scans of the pages in question:
 
-![Space Mines BASIC](/img/happy-fiftyth-birthday-basic-4.png "Space Mines BASIC")
+{% figure "/img/happy-fiftyth-birthday-basic-4.png" "I have a colour copy, but I love this photocopy aesthetic" "Space Mines BASIC" %}
 
 Once I had a version working on DOSBox in Quick Basic, I quickly ported it to C and published it on one of the many code sharing websites of that time. Unfortunately I am unable to find either of my original source code or where it was uploaded to. 
 
-However this is a game that continues to crop up in my mind every so often and really signifies to me something that made the era of BASIC games truly great, therefore I have gone and ported it to Golang and uploaded it to [github here](https://github.com/carbontwelve/go-space-mines).
+However this is a game that continues to crop up in my mind every so often and really signifies to me something that made the era of BASIC games truly great, therefore I have gone and ported it to Golang and uploaded it to [GitHub at carbontwelve/go-space-mines](https://github.com/carbontwelve/go-space-mines).
 
-BASIC has been a big influence in my life, it was the very first programming language that I remember using and I have fond memories in coding with it. If it had not been as easy to understand or get into then I probably would not have ended up with the career I have now. So happy fifty third birthday BASIC, I am sure you will be celebrating many more.
+BASIC has been a big influence in my life, it was the very first programming language that I remember using and I have fond memories in coding with it. If it had not been as easy to understand or get into then I probably would not have ended up with the career I have now. So happy fifty-third birthday BASIC, I am sure you will be celebrating many more.
 
 [^1]: You can download a scanned copy of this book from annarchive [here](https://annarchive.com/files/Basic_Computer_Games_Microcomputer_Edition.pdf)
-[^2]: The Toshiba T3100e had an orange gas plasma display, quite a thing to view at the time however it was CGA and had limited shades of dark, so 2-bit graphics actually looked quite good.
+[^2]: The Toshiba T3100e had an orange gas plasma display, quite a thing to view at the time however it was CGA and had limited shades of dark, so 2-bit graphics actually looked quite good.