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Article #697758Re: Mid-month Ramble - April 2017
From: Tim O
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 00:52
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 00:52
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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. It's great that you did this. A buddy and I did a few of the type-in games for the C64. I think of the three we did, only one wound up working -a stripped down Defender type shooter with a biplane. Neither of us were good at programming or even math, so one magazine typo, misplaced semicolon or "O" in place of a zero could make the program go tits-up and we were helpless to figure it out.
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