Quote Originally Posted by Damaniel View Post
I found printouts of a few programs in a binder, and typed them all in -- reminds me of my Apple II days, typing BASIC programs out of books. None of them are very good or very fun (and the code is totally cringeworthy), but here they are (note: I used hard-coded loops for all of the timing in this code. Running in DosBox at ~20000 cycles will give you a good idea of what these ran like on the PC I did these on)
I remember typing in games from the C64 days...I applaud you for typing those in, it looks like it was a lot of work. I tried them out. Not too bad, a little more polished than mine were.


Quote Originally Posted by cyberfluxor View Post
Idea: Anyone want to start up a classic computer programming group? Nothing to seriously take up time or distract, but rather a down-time thing where if people have spare time they could post some of their homebrew games to share with the rest of the community for download and play? Maybe add a mixture where maybe once a month have a competition to develop a particular game with certain specifications or given a particular program who can get a high-score.

Of course it can be more specific than that or have additional constraints, but you get the idea. Even a 2 month or so development cycle would also be cool. A decision of Open/Closed source would have to be determined, depends on how touchy a coder is with releasing their work.
I like the idea but I doubt I'd have the time...even at a 2 month time limit. Also, looking over my old code it hit me, after switching to C/C++ years ago, I really don't remember much BASIC at all. If anyone else wants to do it though, that'd be pretty cool.

I do have some more games somewhere that I might dig out though if the disks aren't corrupted.