Re:The Antagonists: The rise and fall of type-in text games
by Ekaros on Thursday August 24, 2023 @11:06AM
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I have collection of old magazines and just looking at pages of possibly even compressed code makes me somewhat miffed... They even added check sums on rows later to make it simpler process.
Whole thing was going to die with home computers, programs just grew too much for it to actually work.
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Re:The Antagonists: The rise and fall of type-in text games
by yardshop on Thursday August 24, 2023 @01:32PM
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I remember once in the early 80s typing in a very lengthy program listing from Byte or Nybble magazines on an Apple ][e.
It wasn't BASIC or even Assembler, but machine code!
It didn't run at first so I printed it all out (on 15" wide green bar paper) and on several bus rides to and from school would compare the magazine code to my own print-out until I found the few bytes I had mistyped. Checksums would have been nice!
IIRC it was some kind of music program that let you type in melodies and play them back on the PC speaker. I took a melody line and a bass line from a song I was writing at the time and typed them in on two neighboring PCs in the university lab. When all was ready, I pressed the two Enter keys at the same time, and after weeks of work had several seconds of glorious full-volume square-wave harmony! Formative moments!