Have you ever typed in a jank computer game from a magazine?
>>12653805That looks brutal to accurately type but you only had to do it once... right?
>>12653810You would be able to save it to a floppy disk. It wasn't that hard to type in accurately.
>>12653810You only have to do it once and then you can save it to cassette tape or a floppy disk. Also this is a really short one, most games were multiple pages. This was in basic, but sometimes they were made in assembly so it's just pages and pages of typing arbitrary numbers and one little mistake can cause a big bug :)>>12653825A FLOPPY???? Look at Mr Moneybags over here!
>>12653805>it doesn't work because there was a typo in the magazine and you have to wait for the next issue for the correction
>>12653850Did that happen sometimes? I haven't found any like that yet
I bet this is the kind of thing my brother-in-law means when he talks about "I created games in basic and then sold them" when he was younger given how much of a dimwit he is
>>12653842only ESLs used anything other than floppies back in the day.
>>12653805Not from a magazine but I had a book with simple Basic games I typed into our C64 and saved on tapes. I think only one of them, the last one, had graphics (a lot of pokes and peeks). The rest were either text based or used text as graphics. I remember one of them was a bit like the artillery game Scorched Earth, but text only. After firing it told you how far off the mark you were and in what direction.It was fun trying to figure out how everything worked and adding your own small changes to the programs. First just with the written text to make the games more personal, but then with the numbers too to change the difficulty and how the game was played.
>>12653898Most likely. If you submitted games to a magazine they'd pay you for it. If he was "writing games in basic and selling them" then he was probably selling them to magazines. Or, another possibility, is he sold them on disk to a publisher who took out ads to sell them by mail order in a magazine. Both were pretty common.
>>12653810Some magazines also had checksums per line so you could see if something was wrong somewhere.
>>12654031Compute was good for that
>>12653805>jank computer game from a magazine?yes my school lib had all these old 1980s "computer" books from UK, which listed the codes for BASIC and Speccy and stuff. typed out the BASIC version in Qbasic/DOS. some space mining strategy game. it was ok.
>>12653842floppies were for normal users. money bags had them 4MB hard drives
I was at my friends house one day and his older brother was typing in one of these shit games for hours before myfriend tripped over the power cord and his brother lost his shit and tried to kill my friend and their alcoholic mother tried seperating them and then the dad had to come in from the garage and started beating both of them and I was trying to hide my smirk the entire time because I thought it was hilarious and after everything calmed down I said to the older brother, "so can we play that game yet"
>>12654116Gotta save frequently>after everything calmed down I said to the older brother, "so can we play that game yet"Lmao you little shit
I recently got into collecting magazines for these
Have you ever recorded a game from off the telly?https://youtu.be/4NPkkTBx6qA
No, but I used to mess with the games that came packed with QBASIC.
>>12653810Do it once. but it was always painful>>12653842>typing arbitrary numbers and one little mistake can cause a big bug :)>arbitraryYes, that's how computers work. You give them "arbitrary" numbers and hope for the best. wonderful.Meanwhile back in the land of reality, compute! magazine had MLX that used a checksum for every line entered. made it harder to fat finger the wrong number/hex valuehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLX_(software):)
>>12654704Compute did, but not every magazine had those. Micom BASIC sure didn't.
>>12653805So what kind of games were they? And what program would you type it in, command prompt?
>>12654759>So what kind of games were they?mostly small boring games and sometimes very useful utilities. the utilities were usually far more valued than the games
>>12653842kys eurotrash
>>12653842>sometimes they were made in assembly so it's just pages and pages of typing arbitrary numbersthat's machine code, assembly is the human readable version>one little mistake can cause a big bugthe machine code listings I used came with per line checksums to prevent that
>>12653920im tired of the racism
>>12653920>what is England?
>>12654759>Command prompt?Back in those days when you turned your computer on it booted up instantly and it looked like pic related. And then you just started typing. Command prompt didn't exist yet.
>>12654615recommend me a few, I'm really into these
>>12656271Micom BASIC, Program Pochette, Popcom, I/0, Oh!MZ
>>12653805>Have you ever typed in a jank computer game from a magazine?Have you ever typed in a non-jank computer game from a magazine?>>12653842>so it's just pages and pages of typing arbitrary numbers and one little mistake can cause a big bug :)Your parents made one little mistake in 2013>>12653897>Did that happen sometimes? I haven't found any like that yetIt happened regularly. I guess you just haven't found the right youtubes.
