Remember when you had to work for a new game???

**Goblin** · 10-24-2002, 09:18 PM

I was digging through some stuff and found a few old Compute magazines. Remember back when getting a new game to play, meant you needed to type the multi page basic program in yourself. While I do enjoy the speed of modern PCs, there was a sense of satisfaction back then. When you started playing you felt like you earned it. Everything you did was breaking new ground.

Also in the pile I relocated about 5 years worth of newsletters from a local Atari User Group we belonged to back in the day, cool to go back and read.

**theaveng** · 10-24-2002, 09:51 PM

I remember spending days typing in a word processing program from RUN, and then the stupid thing didn't work on my C=64! I ended up buying the disk, and never bothered with typing programs again. I decided there and then to pay someone else to do the drudge work.

**scooterb23** · 10-24-2002, 10:13 PM

I would love to have all those old programs from Family Computing Magazine, Ahoy!, Compute, whatever so I can relearn Basic...I loved typing in programs...

**briskbc** · 10-25-2002, 01:23 AM

My god it sucked (IMO). I was 12 and a poor typer. Too many Syntax errors.

**moycon** · 10-25-2002, 02:18 AM

I still have a thick softbound book with nothing but C-64 programs and games. One that stood out was a text adventure where you were a wolf in charge of cubs and had to get through the winter!!

My friends and I would make our own text adventures, with graphics made from the built in C-64 graphics keys and even sound effects we got out of the magazines..."footsteps, gunshots, helicopter"

Titles I remember we made.... Attack Force, Dragons Lair, GI Joe, and I had even started one based on the Friday The 13th Movies. I'll bet I still have some of those disk somewhere.

**le geek** · 10-25-2002, 11:03 AM

Hell,
You can download my crappy BASIC C64 game right here!

http://www.abscape.org/legeek/f_c64.htm

Features include:
-Stolen code!
-Keyboard Graphics!
-Space Shuttle theme!
-Multiple loads!
-No scoring whatsoever!

LMAO,
le geek

RJ · 10-25-2002, 11:20 AM

moycon- not to be a jerk, but that would be wolf PUPS, not cubs.

Goblin- were you in JACS (Jersey Atari Computer Society)?

**chazbeenhad** · 10-25-2002, 03:27 PM

I just typed in a program from a book 2 nights ago for my TRS-80 MC-10. It was fun. AND the program I typed in gave me a good idea on some logic i'm going to use in a program i'm writing myself.

Charlie

**Nature Boy** · 10-25-2002, 03:40 PM

I loved typing those things in too. But I never really remember liking the games themselves. I just liked looking at code or typing or something.

Oddly enough I'm a programmer now... :wink:

**kainemaxwell** · 10-25-2002, 03:52 PM

Ahh, those were the simplier times. I have a couple disks in my closet somewhere of games a friend prgrammed from Computes and Contact magazines actually.

**Goblin** · 10-25-2002, 09:53 PM

@ RJ:

I (or my father really) were members of JACG, which met in Murray Hill at Bell Labs. If I'm not mistaken, JACS was in the southern area of the state closer to Philly.

**moycon** · 10-25-2002, 10:42 PM

@ RJ: Yer a jerk.

**scooterb23** · 10-25-2002, 10:55 PM

I wish I had some sources for C64 stuff around here...very frustrating to have a C64, and none of my old magazines / disks/ resources...

**moycon** · 10-25-2002, 11:42 PM

PM sent scooterb23....If yer interested drop me a line.

RJ · 10-26-2002, 01:00 AM

@moycon: hey, just trying to help- now you know if it ever comes up again!

Anyone have an Atari computer & go NUTS typing in control characters, typing in 5+ pp of machine language (nothin' but numbers) &/or doing it w/out TYPO II? How 'bout saving/loading a long program on cassette?

Those were the days & I didn't know any better...

**Nature Boy** · 10-28-2002, 04:14 PM

@RJ: Guilty as charged. I can't believe I used to wait 5-10 minutes for a cassette game. And then there were the times that something would go wrong so you'd have to start all over again. Disk drives didn't come soon enough...

**Dobie** · 10-28-2002, 06:14 PM

I remember getting a magazine titled "3,2,1 Contact!" based on the old PBS educational show. They used to have crappy little programs you could type in to a C=64, and later, into an IBM. I used to spend hours on those things. One used to "translate" typed messages into "Martian" and back.

**kainemaxwell** · 10-28-2002, 06:54 PM

I have some those 3-2-1 Contact programs on a disk somewhere.

**scooterb23** · 10-28-2002, 10:35 PM

Wasn't that section of 3,2,1 Contact Magazine called the Slipped Disk Show or something like that? I tried like CRAZY to get one of my programs printed in there...never happened

**spoon** · 10-29-2002, 12:49 AM

HA HA
I though you meant "remember when you had to work(IE. yard work and such when you were younger) for a video game!
lol, man this was before my time, sorry guys, but I do remember when I had to do chores and such to buy new NES games.

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