I just saw the interview on Abandonia, great stuff!
Wow, dat was vast een lekkere dikke koe, dat je er een echte dos game machine van kon kopen 😉
Keep up the good work QBix and Harekiet!
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Ronald
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wrote:Wow, dat was vast een lekkere dikke koe, dat je er een echte dos game machine van kon kopen 😉
Yeah. Herman it was called.
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Heh. You just read my mind. 😵
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What is this "z:\cd dosbox" thing...?
Q*bert!!! I remember that - and the Spat! sound he made when he missed a square and landed somewhere deep, deep down.
I had it on my Amstrad CPC-464 on a glorius green/black monochrome monitor. I hand-typed it in from a magazine.
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Hand-typed what in? The source code?
wrote:Hand-typed what in? The source code?
Yeah 😀 It was common back in the 80s that the source code of software were in magazine.
Got a lot of simple C64 games that way. And I usually enjoyed reading the 5-10 pages of source code.
Yeah I learned how to program by typing BASIC games from Creative Computing books and magazines into my dad's Heathkit H89, Wyse 286, and Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2. I'm just surprised that Q*Bert was ever published that way, as I thought it was a commercial game.
Just like Pacman, there are lot of Q*bert versions floating around.
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wrote:Hand-typed what in? The source code?
Or just a long list of hexadecimal numbers, being the program code itself...
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He was probly using a form of BASIC.
IIRC the program listings in Amstrad Action (?) magazine consisted of a very short BASIC program (10-15 lines) plus many, many lines of DATA statements with 8-10 pieces of data on each line. The BASIC program read the DATA entries, converted it to machine code while simultanous calculating a running checksum. At fixed intervals in the DATA statements, one of the numbers respresented the correct checksum, so the BASIC program would alert you if you made an error during entry.
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wrote:IIRC the program listings in Amstrad Action (?) magazine consisted of a very short BASIC program (10-15 lines) plus many, many lines of DATA statements with 8-10 pieces of data on each line. (...)
Yeah, that's what I mean, although the BASIC program doesn't convert anything to machine code, the DATA-statement are the machine code itself, being POKEd into RAM by the BASIC program.
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