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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.

Justisaur  <just...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Is anyone actually *good* at guessing whatever exact bit of text some 
>text adventure game wants?

I had friend back in high school who seemed to be good at text adventure
games, at least the Infocom ones.  Though, I don't know how much of
that was because he was good at figuring out what he needed to type or
because he was doggedly determined to finish the games.

					Ross Ridge

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