Subj : Re: I want to do something retro...
To   : Neoshock
From : AKAcastor
Date : Mon Jul 01 2024 11:56:06

 n> There were always mistakes in those magazines and books. 
 n> For magazines you would need to wait for a following 
 n> issue if the noticed the mistake, or for a lot of the 
 n> books, the programs written in basic would be a generic 
 n> basic, and sometimes you would need to modify it for you 
 n> particular computer.

Oh yes, the books that had BASIC programs that would run on any computer!  And somehow they often didn't seem to work on any computer I tried! haha 

I remember borrowing books from the library that suggested the programs could work on an computer with BASIC (but you may need to make some small modifications).  I definitely wasn't able to get past the 'small modifications' step at that time..  Sometimes I hadn't even seen the computers that ran the BASIC dialect used in the book - pretty sure I remember trying to get some Sinclair BASIC programs running in Microsoft GW-BASIC in DOS, I'd never seen a ZX Spectrum in my life.

The books were still a great experience.


Chris/akacastor


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