02-29-2016, 02:11 PM | #16 |
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I had an original Atari Pong video game system. It also had Breakout as well.
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02-29-2016, 02:28 PM | #17 |
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I agree. I so loved the clack clack clack of the font ball while you typed. And a correction tape! Absolute heaven
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03-02-2016, 06:47 PM | #19 |
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03-03-2016, 09:34 AM | #20 |
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My friend had the Pong game, we didn't. I had another friend that got the Atari 2600 system when I was still in elementary school.
Super Breakout, Pac Man, Haunted House, Pitfall, Combat, Asteroids. Oh those games. |
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03-03-2016, 12:29 PM | #21 |
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I remember typing in an Adventure game, on a TRS80 which could only save my work to a cassette tape.
Then a friend and I deconstructed the Adventure game's data format, and wrote our own scenarios. Mine was so lame that I never showed it to anyone, but it was still fun doing it! |
03-03-2016, 12:30 PM | #22 |
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Haha. Used to do that on the Vic-20. I loved that machine. Typing in games from Byte magazine and spending hours trying to find the one misplaced character in the hex code. Good times.
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03-03-2016, 12:43 PM | #23 |
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The very first app (we called them "programmes" in those days) I ever wrote was a slot machine game on an Atari 400. It took forever to save to cassette tape, and I saved it often so a few hundred lines of BASIC code literally took weeks to write.
That's when I learned about being in the zone. I'd start coding after supper, and then it was the wee hours of the morning with seemingly no time at all in between. That's one of the reasons I'm not a "developer" today, my body can't handle so much zoning. |
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