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Dig Dug
I have one memory of this machine. Waiting (praying) 25 minutes for a dig dug game to load from tape and just leaving that running 24 hours a day because that really was all it was good for.
lol @ 20 years too late :-)
I have 20 year old advice for typing mag programs too. Most magazine programs had separate checksum programs that you ran after you finished typing in the program that would let you know which lines had typing errors. Made it easy to troubleshoot and get those programs working.
Most typed-in games were not that great but hey they were practically free and the experience was cool, let you learn some programming too. I would probably still type in a game or app in these days if they hadn't all been already typed and dumped on the web.
I have 20 year old advice for typing mag programs too. Most magazine programs had separate checksum programs that you ran after you finished typing in the program that would let you know which lines had typing errors. Made it easy to troubleshoot and get those programs working.
Most typed-in games were not that great but hey they were practically free and the experience was cool, let you learn some programming too. I would probably still type in a game or app in these days if they hadn't all been already typed and dumped on the web.
I think all my code typing was done on a Vic20 and maybe a little on the Commodore 64. Didn't know enough to really approach it like a programmer. A checksum back then to me would be what your teacher did in math class :).
Just stubborn blind persistence got me through it.
Just stubborn blind persistence got me through it.
My dad still has one of these with catridges of Superbreakout, Pacman & Defender and maybe our old tape games but I'd be amazed if they still load as some of the "dubbed" tapes were dubious back then, sometimes you'd wait 20 - 30 minutes and they wouldn't work and you'd have to start again. Used to spend hours typing games in from compute magazine and then another hour trying to find the typos only to play a completely crap game! Good times....
I wait was torture wasn't it.
I wen through the typing code from mags phase, no matter how careful you were, you'd always end up with a bunch of errors that took longer to find than to type the darn thing in the first place heh. Then the let down when all that hard work was rewarded with a POS game :) Good times indeed!
I wen through the typing code from mags phase, no matter how careful you were, you'd always end up with a bunch of errors that took longer to find than to type the darn thing in the first place heh. Then the let down when all that hard work was rewarded with a POS game :) Good times indeed!
Ah yes, I remember playing such classics as B.C., castle quest, and sea wolf on this little guy. We must have had 150 games spanning 30-40 360k floppy disks. My neighbor had the tape deck, which I can not remember him ever using. Cartridges were kinda lame, since you could have 6-8 games on one floppy.
My uncle used to work for Broderbund, and they had a lot of titles on cartridge for this machine. I remember Claim Jumper and Serpentine distinctly, but Lode Runner was the title that rarely left mine.
