Subj : Re: I want to do something retro...
To   : Spectre
From : Bob Worm
Date : Thu Jun 27 2024 18:55:59

  Re: Re: I want to do something retro...
  By: Spectre to Warpslide on Fri Jun 28 2024 02:38:00

Hi, Spec.

 > Never went there. The parents always though that computers would be a flash
 > in the pan, so no typing.  A lot later though, the same jooy could be had
 > entering hexadecimal code into "Monitor" on the II range... the joys of
 > looking for typo in reams of two digit numbers... Even worse than hunting in
 > basic code.

I never could afford magazines for type-ins but I do remember my brother and me collaborating to type in a "baby crying" program from the C64 manual. One-read-one-type-then-swap setup. The *entire* thing was pokes, as I remember it, and it didn't work by the time we had it all entered.

Now that I think about it, that spiral bound manual is most likely archived online so I *could* go back and find out what it was meant to sound like, assuming I can do a better job on my own than with my pesky brother :)

BobW
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