Typing BASIC from magazines was one thing, I also remember the densely packed pages of hexadecimal that you had to type in for the machine code programs. (Each

Typing BASIC from magazines was one thing, I also remember the densely packed pages of hexadecimal that you had to type in for the machine code programs. (Each line checksummed to try to catch mistakes - I remember as a terribly naive 10 year old thinking I had invented a way of only having to type in the checksum to enter the program!) I also enjoyed being reminded of the incredibly hyperbolic write-ups the magazines used to give the games (you can see the one for the article in the photo). You would read lurid tales of battles against space aliens, then you'd type it in and it would be guiding an ASCII character through a maze with the slow as molasses reponse time that was the hallmark of 8-bit BASIC.