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Around this same time, also inspired by Scott Adams (who I got to thank personally a couple years ago for getting me interested in programming), I played around

Around this same time, also inspired by Scott Adams (who I got to thank personally a couple years ago for getting me interested in programming), I played around with making text adventures on the Apple II machines at my elementary school. I never actually made a complete game, but it taught me a lot about BASIC. The year after I graduated from that school, I was back there for some reason, and some of the kids where playing the games I wrote. When I told them I'd written them, they asked me how to solve the "UNDEF'D STATEMENT" puzzle. I felt bad.

actionfromafar 3y ago
HAhahaha! Your program crashed?! What a weird mix of pride and embarrasment that must've been! I can feel it in my bones.
- technothrasher 3y ago
  It wasn't even so much a crash as a "ran out of program". The code was pretty simplistic and was basically "player selects option 1, goto line 10, option 2, goto line 20." They selected option 2 and there was no line 20. That's simplifying a bit, but that's basically what happened.
AdmiralAsshat 3y ago
Obviously you should've just told the player they found a secret instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9bkKw32dGw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9bkKw32dGw
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Brian_K_White 3y ago
There's a file somewhere in one of the trs-80 model 100 archives that has a name like sexy.ba (filenames are 6.2 and .ba is basic) When you run it it gives some generic "are you ready to have fun?" kind of message, but then crashes. But it's BASIC so you just go to the crashed line and fix a typo. Run, crashes a few lines later, you fix something slightly trickier like an array index out of range, run,... 3 or 4 of those total and it just ends "You learned how to debug and fix programs! Congratulations! Wasn't that fun?" I have to say I was actually unreasonably entertained, so hats off to the author.
- Brian_K_White 3y ago
  https://github.com/LivingM100SIG/Living_M100SIG/blob/main/M100SIG/Lib-05-GAMES/SEXFUN.100 https://github.com/LivingM100SIG/Living_M100SIG/blob/main/M1...

actionfromafar 3y ago

HAhahaha! Your program crashed?! What a weird mix of pride and embarrasment that must've been! I can feel it in my bones.

technothrasher 3y ago
It wasn't even so much a crash as a "ran out of program". The code was pretty simplistic and was basically "player selects option 1, goto line 10, option 2, goto line 20." They selected option 2 and there was no line 20. That's simplifying a bit, but that's basically what happened.

AdmiralAsshat 3y ago

Obviously you should've just told the player they found a secret instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9bkKw32dGw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9bkKw32dGw

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Brian_K_White 3y ago

There's a file somewhere in one of the trs-80 model 100 archives that has a name like sexy.ba (filenames are 6.2 and .ba is basic) When you run it it gives some generic "are you ready to have fun?" kind of message, but then crashes. But it's BASIC so you just go to the crashed line and fix a typo. Run, crashes a few lines later, you fix something slightly trickier like an array index out of range, run,... 3 or 4 of those total and it just ends "You learned how to debug and fix programs! Congratulations! Wasn't that fun?" I have to say I was actually unreasonably entertained, so hats off to the author.

Brian_K_White 3y ago
https://github.com/LivingM100SIG/Living_M100SIG/blob/main/M100SIG/Lib-05-GAMES/SEXFUN.100 https://github.com/LivingM100SIG/Living_M100SIG/blob/main/M1...