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Article #697746Re: Mid-month Ramble - April 2017
From: Mike S.
Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 11:12
Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 11:12
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On Mon, 08 May 2017 12:33:50 +0300, Anssi Saari <a...@sci.fi> wrote: >As for the first computer game on a computer I owned, I think it was a >type-in from a magazine for the Commodore VIC-20. If that can be said to >be owned. The same mag had some kind of car racing game and some kind of >Space Invaders type of game. Typing those in was kinda annoying because >firstly the games didn't work due to typos and secondly the cassette >drive thingy wouldn't work so I couldn't save and try fixing later. I >think I had to exchange the VIC three or four times to get a fully >working one. Wow, the type in's from magazines. I forgot about those. I used to type then in from Compute's Gazette magazine which was dedicated to the Commodore 8 bit computers. I had no trouble saving them on the C64 as I am sure I was already using a disk drive by then. But yeah, the typos could be a pain.
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