No more could be done, back in the old day's.

AnnDroid

AnnDroid
Just thinking folk's, considering that the original Elite was written in k's like many great pc game's at the time, do you think that we've lost something here ?
Are thing's too easy now, with not having to know any binary, hex and assembler and getting to know the intrinsic nature of the specific cpu, ram and i/o port etc ?
 

DraigUK

DraigUK
AnnDroid said:
Just thinking folk's, considering that the original Elite was written in k's like many great pc game's at the time, do you think that we've lost something here ?
Are thing's too easy now, with not having to know any binary, hex and assembler and getting to know the intrinsic nature of the specific cpu, ram and i/o port etc ?
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I'm personally glad I no longer have to spend sometimes hours, creating boot disks just to get enough mem free to run games anymore.
 

Mace71

Mace71
DraigUK said:
I'm personally glad I no longer have to spend sometimes hours, creating boot disks just to get enough mem free to run games anymore.
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Pah! You with your fancy 'boot disks', try getting it to load from a tape for 30 minutes only for it to fail and have to start all over again :)
 

Sazon

S
Mace71 said:
Pah! You with your fancy 'boot disks', try getting it to load from a tape for 30 minutes only for it to fail and have to start all over again :)
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That happened so many times with my 'Hobbit' game.

When I first got a disk drive (double sided AND double density from Viglen) for my BBC I was in heaven for a month! :D
 

Togg

Togg
I do remember the days where to even get a program to load you had to have a working knowledge of freeing up memory and how to configure everything all with out actually frying you computer by accident.

I do NOT miss those days.
 

mojonaut

mojonaut
Hell, I built my first 'computer' based on a Motorola 6800 from a design by the Amateur Computer Club all soldered up on some stripboard.

It had I think 256 bytes of ram, (no Rom or operating system) was programmed by setting up an address in binary on toggle switches, then setting the data byte also on toggle switches and hitting a button to store that data value at said address.

The address switches were then set to the next binary address and so on....

it i/o was a row of 8 Leds one for each bit of the output port.

what joy making then sequence, or hanging a small speaker off bit 0 to get a tone out of it.

It did teach you how the things worked and gave a good grounding in binary and later Hexadecimal.

Byte Magazine and if you could get it Doctor Dobbs Journal were the zines of the day - happy days.


You kids :) you don't know how easy ya got it :D
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
Me who has begun the computer with a Z80 at 4.77 MHz and now has a 4770K at 3.5 - 4.6 GHZ, I can say : computers are a great adventure, fabulous. One of great loves of my life
 
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