Subj : Re: I want to do something retro...
To   : Bob Worm
From : AKAcastor
Date : Thu Jun 27 2024 10:57:28

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

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

Wouldn't it be a surprise if there was a misprint in the book and that's why it never worked?

I am still suspicious about some of those programs I typed in in the 80's and maybe it wasn't my fault after all!  (OK, I definitely made mistakes typing them in.)


Chris/akacastor


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