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My friend has a TRS-80 Model II. I translated some games for him from other computer magazines. It was a fun experience. I can't remember much about it other t
by SixSigma 10y ago
My friend has a TRS-80 Model II. I translated some games for him from other computer magazines. It was a fun experience.
I can't remember much about it other than I did it and was quite proud of myself (being only 12 at the time).
- ansible 10y agoYeah, back before my friends and I had computers, we would pour over the program listings in various magazines. We even started writing our own adventure game, modeled after one we saw the source for... even though we weren't able to even run it. Crazy computer kids, we were...
- madengr 10y agoI remember some magazine came out with BASIC programs translated into bar codes, and with their special scanner, you'd scan in your program instead of typing it. Damn how I wanted that thing, of course you would not learn as you did from typing it in and finding your errors.
- SixSigma 10y agoI learned to code by transcribing code for the Acorn Electron (which I didn't own or have access to) from teletext onto paper ! What I didn't know at the time was that some of it was encoded so that say "#" would mean "print", I didn't find out until the internet came along and I read stuff like the link [1] for nostalgia. I still have a BBC computer and Cub RGB monitor - I have an SD card adapter for it nowadays. I have a BBC Forth ROM chip in it and so I have a Forth Machine at the flick on a switch with a built in A/D convertor, Speech Synthesis also in ROM and a 1Mhz interface bus. Pretty cool gadget still. [1] http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/mags/aab/revs/morley/Teletext_Adaptor_000.html http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/mags/aab/revs/morley/Teletext...
- madengr 10y agoI have a C64 with many bells and whistles (modern interface adapters), an Apple II, and a Briel Computers Altair clone kit (blinken lights). Also have a C64-SX portable, and Tandy 100. https://rfpoweramp.com https://rfpoweramp.com