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I grew up in Russia, and ES-1841 was my first computer, too. Also with a printer, yet no HD. That was 1990 and I was 10 y.o... Once printed a caricature of one

I grew up in Russia, and ES-1841 was my first computer, too. Also with a printer, yet no HD. That was 1990 and I was 10 y.o... Once printed a caricature of one of school bullies using (a Soviet clone of) Turbo Pascal and its turtle graphics facility, resulting in a fight. My favorite pastime was writing DOS viruses in asm, though... I didn't spread them, just wrote some for fun. Found some of my virus code written down a couple of years ago https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-jP39nXEAAve0O?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-jP39nXEAAve0O?format=jpg&name=...

throwaway167 3y ago
Impressive handwriting for 10.
- xorbax 3y ago
  It's also an interesting anecdote for that thread about paper that popped up the other day I'd guess he doesn't have the disk or files (although I wouldn't be surprised if they did - I was not so neat or organized at 10)
  - qingcharles 3y ago
    What was the thread about paper? I remember when I first got on the Net in 1993, almost none of the sites I wanted to connect to had DNS entries so I had piles of notepaper filled with random IP addresses.
lxe 3y ago
I guess I'm not the only kid who was into assembly! Impressive stuff. In 7th grade in 2001 I moved to the US, and got really into the whole TI-83 ecosystem. Got a sprite editor published to ticalc.org, and memorized the z80 opcodes in hex so I can write simple asm programs directly on the calculator. In 8th grade I started socializing and lost the gift. Still can't believe I did all that.
tetris11 3y ago
> Deletor Latronem Young Harry Potter fan?
- galkk 3y ago
  It seems it was much earlier than Harry Potter
galkk 3y ago
My English is worse than yours, but still, if anybody is curious. I'm really impressed with your documentation. I started at around 94 with Turbo Pascal and really struggled with absence of good books/reference materials and lack of English language knowledge, as I studied German in school. Positioning (fn42h) When pointer is moved [advanced?], take value of highest bit of CX register as special flag value. After jump? [hard to understand, the literal work is positioning], when pointer will point the code "LATRO", add or subtract from the pointer the value offset veryend [not exactly clear]. If pointer points after end of the file and MS DOS [interrupt?] is triggered decrease from DX:AX offest veryend (Elementary!) Reading (fn 3Fh) In case if current position < 1Ch, then, later remembering to restore current position, read necessary amount of bytes from the end of the file (eof - |offset veryend - offset save_area|) [it is not clear, but it really looks like there is modulo]. During capture of LATRO area, trim the read (SRF). ^ (curpos + numread) > (eof -offset veryend) Let me guess. Питер Абель, Язык Ассемблера для IBM PC и программирования. ?

throwaway167 3y ago

Impressive handwriting for 10.

xorbax 3y ago
It's also an interesting anecdote for that thread about paper that popped up the other day I'd guess he doesn't have the disk or files (although I wouldn't be surprised if they did - I was not so neat or organized at 10)
- qingcharles 3y ago
  What was the thread about paper? I remember when I first got on the Net in 1993, almost none of the sites I wanted to connect to had DNS entries so I had piles of notepaper filled with random IP addresses.

lxe 3y ago

I guess I'm not the only kid who was into assembly! Impressive stuff. In 7th grade in 2001 I moved to the US, and got really into the whole TI-83 ecosystem. Got a sprite editor published to ticalc.org, and memorized the z80 opcodes in hex so I can write simple asm programs directly on the calculator. In 8th grade I started socializing and lost the gift. Still can't believe I did all that.

tetris11 3y ago

> Deletor Latronem Young Harry Potter fan?

galkk 3y ago
It seems it was much earlier than Harry Potter

galkk 3y ago

My English is worse than yours, but still, if anybody is curious. I'm really impressed with your documentation. I started at around 94 with Turbo Pascal and really struggled with absence of good books/reference materials and lack of English language knowledge, as I studied German in school. Positioning (fn42h) When pointer is moved [advanced?], take value of highest bit of CX register as special flag value. After jump? [hard to understand, the literal work is positioning], when pointer will point the code "LATRO", add or subtract from the pointer the value offset veryend [not exactly clear]. If pointer points after end of the file and MS DOS [interrupt?] is triggered decrease from DX:AX offest veryend (Elementary!) Reading (fn 3Fh) In case if current position < 1Ch, then, later remembering to restore current position, read necessary amount of bytes from the end of the file (eof - |offset veryend - offset save_area|) [it is not clear, but it really looks like there is modulo]. During capture of LATRO area, trim the read (SRF). ^ (curpos + numread) > (eof -offset veryend) Let me guess. Питер Абель, Язык Ассемблера для IBM PC и программирования. ?