[FUN] OK - Hands up who remembers typing a game in!
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I wrote a Star Trek game (in 512 BYTES - I kid you not, that was a smug lot of RAM backinnaday) when I was teaching myself BASIC.
Edit: that was on an Ohio Superboard. Hands up if you've ever heard of it.
Edit 2: The greatest fun was learning assembler by writing a disassembler in assembler, and learning FORTH by writing a FORTH decompiler in FORTH, both on the BBC "B". But I never wrote anything really useful, except maybe a primitive word processor before they became commonplace.
Edit: that was on an Ohio Superboard. Hands up if you've ever heard of it.
Edit 2: The greatest fun was learning assembler by writing a disassembler in assembler, and learning FORTH by writing a FORTH decompiler in FORTH, both on the BBC "B". But I never wrote anything really useful, except maybe a primitive word processor before they became commonplace.
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I started by writing up those Basic programs from magazines. A simple text adventure and a "psychiatrist" program taught me what I needed to start programming my own text adventures. The height of my programming was a text based gladiator game where you earned money through fights and could upgrade your gear a little by little.
1982 (10 years old), Texas Instruments Ti-99, typed in a game from Computer & Video Games magazine - downhill skiing. Was an ascii-based thing.
Skip forward 16 years to 1998 and I wrote my first game from scratch - an 'Asteroids' clone on pc using DirectX 3
Skip forward 16 years to 1998 and I wrote my first game from scratch - an 'Asteroids' clone on pc using DirectX 3
So I was thinking... I do that sometimes
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?
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
+1! The pain you brought up from my long forgotten memory! Rep for you kind Sir!
I remember typing in pages and pages of code and then having to go through and check it all again when it didn't work.
That was the first real "grind" in gaming (and it was still fun somehow).
That was the first real "grind" in gaming (and it was still fun somehow).
Hehehe thanks... I'm loving all the memories
Love you guys - Oh and Girls - All platonic of course!Philip Coutts
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Yes I can just about remember doing this. We had an acorn electron and my brother used to get the occasional magazine with the programmes in it. I quite enjoyed following and typing the stuff in exactly, it appealed to my ordered mind at the time!
My best friend and I used to type them in from C&VG mag which was a pretty cool computer gaming mag for a teen with neat 2000AD style robots comic characters throughout.
Unfortunately they hardly ever worked. Don't know who's fault it was. One of us would read it out aloud while the other would type. So plenty of room for errors.
Unfortunately they hardly ever worked. Don't know who's fault it was. One of us would read it out aloud while the other would type. So plenty of room for errors.
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As most of us know, play is an important part of life and every kid loves to involve himself/herself in some sort of play. In the current computer dominated world, it becomes essential that kids should have good typing speed and they can gain this skill in a playful method with the help of free typing games. Parents are showing interest towards teaching this skill to their kids at a tender age.
typing games
typing games
I remember spending an afternoon working through a game in Electron User .. typing it all in very carefully. I ran the game once and it worked straight off the bat.
Then I hit break and typed > old list
It was at that point that I found the code had a *fx command in there to prevent old listing of the code. My afternoon's efforts, lost in an instant.
Then I hit break and typed > old list
It was at that point that I found the code had a *fx command in there to prevent old listing of the code. My afternoon's efforts, lost in an instant.
Argh. Sometimes you get so close from hitting the stars...
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Hehehe thanks... I'm loving all the memories
Not to forget the ZX81 ram pack wobble just as you about to enter the last line of a listing...
Ye old ZX81, I must have been about 11 years old. I remember it took me ages to type the code for a horse racing game (if you could call it a game) and lo and behold it didn`t run properly!
Next up was the 16k ZX Spectrum, don`t remember typing any code for that but I do remember beefing it up by pushing the upgrades into one another at the back of it, happy days
Next up was the 16k ZX Spectrum, don`t remember typing any code for that but I do remember beefing it up by pushing the upgrades into one another at the back of it, happy days
At one of the last rows:
*clickediclickediclicki*
>CRC-Checksum failed
(and you're sure you've typed as it is printed)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone knows this feeling
Agh! Twenty years ago, I typed in many pages of PEEK and POKE codes on my C64 from some game magazine. Endless lists of digits that made no sense. And somewhere in the middle I made a mistake, so it never worked! I'm still traumatized!
Later I learned C128 Basic and made my own Minesweeper clone. That was the pinnacle of my programming skills!