[FUN] OK - Hands up who remembers typing a game in!

Did you ever type a game in?

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Nutter

Nutter
So I was thinking... I do that sometimes :D

Anywhoo! People talking about games this that and the other...

Who here remembers getting a gaming mag and then typing each line of code in out of the mag for a 'free' game? :D

Wow it does make me fell old, imagine the 'kids' today...

Child "Can I have that game Dad?"

Parent "Sure son.... Get typing!"

Child "What? uh?"

Poll coming!

Nutter
 

dale0404

D
ZX81 springs to mind, typing in code with the touchpad thing they called a keyboard, Downhill Skier or something like that.
 

Hadron-Higgs-Boson

Hadron-Higgs-Boson
hell yeah, that was how you learned to program, I have a deeply suppressed memory of typing in a game form PCW for one of the Commodore machines, and they had not been able to print all of those pesky quoted cursor control symbols correctly rendering the whole thing a disaster :)

I also fondly remember my first published program and the cheque for £10, at that point my dad started to pay attention and realise, hey this computer lark could make money.

Its all been downhill from there....
 
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Cmdr Andy B

Cmdr Andy B
i remember those days, spending an hour typing in code only to find it didn't work because you'd used a comma instead of a semi-colon and by the time you'd sorted it out and were about to save it to tape your dad walked in, told you it was time for bed and turned off the computer before you'd saved it :(
 
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CMDR Space Lurker

C
Did that once on my good old Commodore 64.. but a common problem with that was printing errors and whatnot.. It was more fun to write your own games.. even though every last one I did was in BASIC and very far from a masterpiece... :)
 

OrLoK

OrLoK
Hello there

ZX80 (1kb Ram) Screen flash everytime one entered in a character.

"Nibble the cheese" was the first one I did.

Later in life I had endless hours of fun entering games from ZX magazines for the spectrum for them not to work.

And I had to get up half an hour before I went to bed. Luxury!

Rgds

LoK

PS notice its only us fogies answering?
 

Bloomoo

Bloomoo
And the best thing about typing the code in by hand?
It was still faster than trying to get the free flexi-discs on the magazine covers to work!! :eek:
 

Crazy_Mayes

Crazy_Mayes
I spent many hours on different variants of Commodore machines doing this...

I recall having these books...

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Kid Firestorm

Kid Firestorm
Ok now I feel like I'm missing something here because I've never heard of this. And not because I'm that young, I'm 29. I take it this was a PC thing.
 

Nutter

Nutter
Hahah Brilliant.

My Favorite in store program was real simple

10 PRINT "Nutter waz ERE!"
20 GOTO 10
30 ON ERROR RUN

Those were the days! :D
 

S.H.A.D.O

S
I used to spend hours and hours typing in code from magazines and then spending even longer trying to debug it and get it working as there was always typos and problems.

Started doing them on my 1k ZX81, which was cool. 1k of code is pretty easy to enter :D
Then I went onto typing them in for my Speccy, C64 and BBC model B. I even bought a special weekly magazine called "Input" which had games for all the popular machines of the time (Speccy, C64, Amstrad, BBC) and I still actually have them :D

They were good times.

...well apart from the times you got rampack wobble on the ZX81 and you lost everything, thankfully blutac came to the rescue there ;)
 

Kramster

Kramster
Memories the C64 days were a doddle compared the ZX80/81 at least the commodore had a proper keyboard ^^
Tell the youth of t'day that and they'll think you're lying....
 

Hadron-Higgs-Boson

Hadron-Higgs-Boson
or typing in the machine code loader written in basic to then be able to type in the 1k worth of bytes (machine code) for Chess on the ZX81, no options to go back, any mistake and you had to start over, think it took 4 or 5 atempts, then played it before saving it to cassette tape and had no way to save it, so had to start all over again - man we went through some things in the name of gaming back then :)
 

Koen

Koen
I hated to type games over. Also, the BASIC dialect I used (Sharp BASIC SP-5025) was so weird that I would have to adapt a lot anyway.

So, usually I just read the description and then coded it from scratch without using the printed listing.
 
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