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This. I, too, got into college without graduating high school, based on some software I wrote on an Apple II. It wasn't MIT, but that's kind of the point-- ma
by michael_dorfman 16y ago
This.
I, too, got into college without graduating high school, based on some software I wrote on an Apple II. It wasn't MIT, but that's kind of the point-- many schools are open to non-traditional students who impress them in some way. And back in those days, I imagine the bar was a lot lower in terms of what kind of code it took to impress (due to Moore's Law, as much as anything else...)
- rbanffy 16y agoGuess I should have submitted my Apple II code to MIT in the mid-80's... Too bad that, even if I did it now, they probably won't be able to read my Apple II floppies (I am afraid I won't be able to read them anymore - and I have a couple Apple IIs in my collection) :-/ How many of us wrote a window manager with 1K of 6502 code?
- tluyben2 16y agoZ80, using HEX only. That was great. And no internet needed, just some magazines and BBS printouts.
- rbanffy 16y agoI confess I kind of cheated. I used William F. Luebbert's "What's Where in the Apple II" to find routines in ROM suitable to what I wanted to do. You can grab yours at http://apple2scans.net/apple-ii/whats-where-in-the-apple/ http://apple2scans.net/apple-ii/whats-where-in-the-apple/
- Graham24 16y agoI did on the C64, prob more than 1K mind you. It allowed you to create a bordered window of any size and colour, write text directly to it and when it was closed, as if by magic, the text that was behind it was still there! I think you could have 8 such windows open at the same time. I was rather pleased with it at the time.