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When I Was Your Age, We Had to READ Our Computer Games.

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When I Was Your Age, We Had to READ Our Computer Games.

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adrian
adrian posted over 6 years ago

That’s funny.

A friend, James was telling me when he was a kid, he would go around to his friends place to play with the friends Commodore 16. His friend asked him if he would like to play a game. James said ‘sure’, and his friend would quickly type the source code then and there for the game. How old school is that?

quaternions
quaternions posted over 6 years ago

My first home computer was a ZX81 . I remember typing in the whole 16KB of a game, and before i could play or save it the computer crashed, the memory expansion packs were dodgy. Was not pleased :)

-bailey-
-bailey- posted over 6 years ago

Those were the days. My brother and I used to write silly little games for each other in BASIC on our bleeding-edge Apple IIe, way back when. Then Infocom came along and made us all look bad. Still, typing in game code just for a one-time use is impressively old-school in the extreme. Wherever James’s friend is now, he’s probably awesome.

quaternions
quaternions posted over 6 years ago

Yeah i used BASIC too, its very unforgiving tho isn’t it. One spelling mistake and nothing works at all :)

-bailey-
-bailey- posted over 6 years ago

Perhaps, but at least in BASIC I stood a fighting chance of finding said mistakes.

Really, it was a well named language.

I miss it, a little.

quaternions
quaternions posted over 6 years ago

I remember trying to learn C++, i didn’t get that far but i noticed a large number of similarities between the two languages. I take it you code or use HTML ?

-bailey-
-bailey- posted over 6 years ago

HTML /Javascript and a (very annoying) bit of PHP for work purposes. I enjoy Perl in my free time.

lyddo
lyddo posted over 5 years ago

hahaha thats funny. that sounds like something my grandpa would say.

konkira
konkira posted over 5 years ago

Heh, immediately had me thinking: "Ye can't get ye flask"

Precipitation
Precipitation posted over 5 years ago

If you like old-school games, there are tons that you can download for free as abandonware. Here are some great sites:

http://www.abandonia.com

http://www.xtcabandonware.com/ 

-bailey-
-bailey- posted over 5 years ago

I love abandonia. XD

Voodoo Doll Charlie
Voodoo Doll Charlie posted over 2 years ago

I Don't get it…and i'm a video game addict! D: