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Check the BBC Micro User Guide [1] for a very quick example of why so many of us that got computers at that time got into programming. By page 5 you're writing
by louthy 10y ago
Check the BBC Micro User Guide [1] for a very quick example of why so many of us that got computers at that time got into programming. By page 5 you're writing code (after the info on how to plug it in). Lines, colours, and sounds by pages 6 and 7. Page 168 is program optimisation techniques. Page 428: "An introduction to assembly language" ... 6502 assembler, amazing. That guide inspired me (aged 10) to start writing games, and gave me a career!
[1] http://bbc.nvg.org/doc/BBCUserGuide-1.00.pdf http://bbc.nvg.org/doc/BBCUserGuide-1.00.pdf
- foobarian 10y agoWow you guys were coddled. I had a hard time finding good Spectrum info in an ex-YU backwater, mostly just piecing it a bit at a time from magazines. If I got access to something like Stack Overflow back then I think I would have fainted.