The good 'ole days (games, modem, screen, text editor)
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Trying to have a little fun with this, my coolest program ever was on the Commodore 64.
It was only a few lines and It changed the color from black to white in rapid succession, a home made strobe light. I'm sure it wasn't very good for the TV that in the early 80's cost as much as a TV now. LOL
It was far better than the 1000 line programs you could copy from a magazine, remember them? You'd get the thing done after fixing typos for hours on end and it was lamest thing ever.
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Trying to have a little fun with this, my coolest program ever was on the Commodore 64.
It was only a few lines and It changed the color from black to white in rapid succession, a home made strobe light. I'm sure it wasn't very good for the TV that in the early 80's cost as much as a TV now. LOL
It was far better than the 1000 line programs you could copy from a magazine, remember them? You'd get the thing done after fixing typos for hours on end and it was lamest thing ever.
Ha! I wrote something similar for the Apple II, but instead of strobing quickly it would light for maybe 10 seconds and then go black again for a random interval between 1 and 15 minutes. We used to play assassin in the basement with dart guns (used pillows in the windows to make it pitch black), and the Apple screen would light up the room randomly and create a furious crossfire as everyone would see where everyone else was!
Trying to have a little fun with this, my coolest program ever was on the Commodore 64.
It was only a few lines and It changed the color from black to white in rapid succession, a home made strobe light. I'm sure it wasn't very good for the TV that in the early 80's cost as much as a TV now. LOL
It was far better than the 1000 line programs you could copy from a magazine, remember them? You'd get the thing done after fixing typos for hours on end and it was lamest thing ever.
I had one of those books for the C64. The one I had wasn't even code, it was ASCII characters that you typed into the editor (mostly symbols), and then launched the file as an exe. It was like someone basically opened the compiled app in a text editor, and printed out the resulting "lucky charms". You typed it all back in and renamed it to exe and away you went (as long as you didn't have any typos).
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I had one of those books for the C64. The one I had wasn't even code, it was ASCII characters that you typed into the editor (mostly symbols), and then launched the file as an exe. It was like someone basically opened the compiled app in a text editor, and printed out the resulting "lucky charms". You typed it all back in and renamed it to exe and away you went (as long as you didn't have any typos).
Lots of hex codes. I typed one in from, I think, Creative Computing, and it took forever...
The C-64 was great for the stupid forms that used to be ubiquitous in business back then. I'd set up a formatting program, use the computing power to do all the required math and print out a nice typed form. It really used to tick off supervisors who expected people to fill everything out by hand so that they could complain or look for math errors.
Towards the end of theC-64, there were some "resume" visuals and audio visuals that were reaally good. It took about five years for the PCs to catch up.
Trying to have a little fun with this, my coolest program ever was on the Commodore 64.
I love my C64!!!
I wrote 2 big programs in basic....... One was a casino type program with 3 games,pretty fun!! (40 blocks or so if I remember right (No it had to be more than that (I accidently ruined the disk its on (Spilled iced tea on it ))))
The other was a war-dialer type program that searched for CARRIERS (Numbers with a modem that answered)
My programming style is different from most and I remember one time someone tried to look @ my program (They deblitzed it) and they were confused!!! (Not what someone would usually do with different routines,etc)
I thankfully still have that disk... My last version was 11 I think and is pretty nifty!!
I have done some basic programming on APPLE also but not nearly as much.... This game we had when I was @ this skewl in Devon PA (It was a commercial game) -- I added basically an intro so when you booted the disk it said "Welcome...... Are you ready?
WELL PRESS RETURN AND ILL LOAD UP THE FUN! (After you pressed return it said)
Modz by: The Dude <date here>" (I forgot what date I did the modz -- THE STAFF THERE WASNT IMPRESSED.... They removed my program from the start of it )
I remember typing in the code for a game written in DOS spaghetti Basic. After I had corrected all the typos I could find, I found the game was running too fast to be playable. I was not able to follow the code and figure out how to slow it down.
I write VBA routines the way I was taught to write code in COBOL. Code should be self-documenting, with standard nomenclature and descriptive variable names. I have to send Excel files in XML schema to the EPA. I learned that when my file was rejected, I could open it in the debugger and find the errors, even though I did not have access to the source code. It turns out the EPA also uses descriptive variable names.
Which would you rather have to deal with? VBA with a variable named iColCount, which can be decoded as integer column count, or the same variable, but named Fergalicious?
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