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> Kids can do far more today than in the Commodore 64 era. Kids can do far more but they're not instantly warped into a fully programmable environment. You ent
by dep_b 7y ago
> Kids can do far more today than in the Commodore 64 era.
Kids can do far more but they're not instantly warped into a fully programmable environment. You enter the following:
POKE 53281,8
And you're immediately changing stuff like the background color, something you also saw happening in turbo loaders or those quick color cycling screens before a game started. You get the feeling that it's possible to achieve anything yourself.
It's pretty empowering and a lot of kids knew these kind of "secrets" and some basic BASIC.
Nowadays it's actually easier to do a lot of things with autocompleting IDE's and Stack Overflow but you're not exposed to it so directly.
- peteforde 7y agoFirst, I think you need to be realistic: we're going into the third decade of the 21st century and no kids are going to be POKEing, not even on Facebook. Second, I think you underestimate how tangibly incredible it is to hit play on a basic scene in Unity and see it come to life. I think that this is the reason Roblox is so popular, and Unity is the next step.
- dep_b 7y ago> no kids are going to be POKEing, not even on Facebook If they can be tricked into executing random JavaScript in the Chrome debugger on Facebook we're actually pretty close. The difference is that the C64 dumped you straight into it and you would have to load your first website using the debugger command line.