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Back in the 80's my brother and I would type in programs from a computer magazine called "Compute's Gazette" which was mainly for the Commodore 64. I remember t

Back in the 80's my brother and I would type in programs from a computer magazine called "Compute's Gazette" which was mainly for the Commodore 64. I remember typing in a variant of code that was similar to assembly (they coined it MLX), and included checksums at the end of each line to make sure we typed it in correctly. We spent many hours typing it in and playing these "lite" games. https://kotaku.com/load-great-memories-8-1-5930961 https://kotaku.com/load-great-memories-8-1-5930961 https://archive.org/stream/1983-12-compute-magazine/Compute_Issue_043_1983_Dec#page/n215/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/1983-12-compute-magazine/Compute_... I have to admit I really miss the days of being able to type in a game from a book (meh.... not really).

prepend 6y ago
I remember doing this from Byte magazine, or at least I think I do. I didn’t have a hard drive so I would spend all day typing in the program, run it and lose it when the computer shut down. I remember being mad when my sibling would turn off the computer unexpectedly.
commandlinefan 6y ago
> typing in a variant of code that was similar to assembly And in case you didn't have a disk drive, the magazine included the BASIC source code listing of the program that you had to type _those_ programs into.