My days of writing games on the Sinclaire Spectrum 48k+ by copying the text from monthly games magazines. Most of the time there was a misprint and it didn't work. lol
I remember learning this on the TRS lol, then made the jump to doing it on PCDOS Basic First game I ever made was a one I spent a week typing then saving to cassette, loading it over and over, debugging line by line, then playing with my uncle. It was a racing game with "Pa Cautious", (my slow driving pop), "Na Leadfoot" (Nana) and "Speedy Von Mark", (My uncle). 3 coloured squares racing around a grey racetrack with random pitstops, and various random obstacles. Game ran for 3 minutes lol.
Yep, possibly my first PC experience. Somewhere around 8-10 years old maybe, BASIC on a BBC Micro. Made a good impression for me to remember it that fondly.
My days of writing games on the Sinclaire Spectrum 48k+ by copying the text from monthly games magazines. Most of the time there was a misprint and it didn't work. lol
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I remember learning this on the TRS lol, then made the jump to doing it on PCDOS Basic
First game I ever made was a one I spent a week typing then saving to cassette, loading it over and over, debugging line by line, then playing with my uncle.
It was a racing game with "Pa Cautious", (my slow driving pop), "Na Leadfoot" (Nana) and "Speedy Von Mark", (My uncle).
3 coloured squares racing around a grey racetrack with random pitstops, and various random obstacles. Game ran for 3 minutes lol.
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Yes, used to do this on the C64. Some of those books can be found here:
usborne.com/za/books/computer-and-coding-books
and:
commodore.bombjack.org/generic/generic-books-basic.htm
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Oh wow that brings back memories of late nights with mom. Inputing each line on our old Comodore 64. Then saving it on a cassete tape.
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Yep, possibly my first PC experience.
Somewhere around 8-10 years old maybe, BASIC on a BBC Micro.
Made a good impression for me to remember it that fondly.
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Dos
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I refuse to answer on grounds that I may incriminate myself.
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I remeber it well.
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