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Re:Boulder Dash by sokoloff on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @04:32PM (#35061547)
I typed in a lot of those programs on my Atari 800. One magazine had an editor mod that would checksum the line as you typed it in (some programs were pages of hex data, the compiled program; others were regular BASIC).
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Re:Boulder Dash by waltbosz on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @08:58PM (#35064211)
I remember the BASIC and hex code. It's wild to think that software was once distributed on a printed page.
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Re:Boulder Dash by marktam264 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @11:21PM (#35065212)
Was it Antic magazine? I did the same. And the editor mod was called Typo. Good times back then.
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Re:Boulder Dash by sokoloff on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @05:43AM (#35067424)
I subscribed to both Analog and Antic; I honestly couldn’t say which it was but remember my dream was to get good enough to get one of my programs published in a magazine. (I never did.) Little did I know where that would take me.

Edit to add: your question sparked my curiosity, so I looked it up. It was Typo II: https://www.atarimagazines.com/v3n9/TYPOII.html

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Re:Boulder Dash by waltbosz on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @12:59PM (#35072386)
I think the one that we had was Analog, that sounds familiar.
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