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I typed in stuff from Compute! magazine. They had a neat helper program to show a simple checksum of each line in the margin, so you could catch typos more eas
by foobarian 8y ago
I typed in stuff from Compute! magazine. They had a neat helper program to show a simple checksum of each line in the margin, so you could catch typos more easily. To make things even more fun I didn't have a tape drive so I got really good at typing in my games each time I felt like playing :)
- robterrell 8y agoOh wow, I wrote games for Compute! magazine. Rather, ported them. Readers would submit games for their particular computer, an editor would select a few for each issue, and then we'd port them to the other popular 8-bit micros. Best high school job ever. IIRC the guy who wrote the checksum generator also wrote the common assembly language graphics routines we used for all the games.
- foobarian 8y agoThat's amazing. The game I had was called "Biker Dave" for Atari 800XL [1] and it was a little biker sprite jumping over obstacles. [1] This was it: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-biker-dave_6100.html http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-biker-dav...