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The Shaggy D.A. |
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The Shaggy D.A. Super Spammer
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Posted: 16:44 - 24 Jul 2020 Post subject: BBC Micro - Blast from the past |
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Runs in your browser.
https://bbcmicro.co.uk//index.php?rt_R=&rt_B=&rt_M=&rt_P=&rt_U=&rt_W=&rt_L=&search=&sort=p ____________________ Chances are quite high you are not in my Monkeysphere, and I don't care about you. Don't take it personally.
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Posted: 17:11 - 24 Jul 2020 Post subject: |
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Acornsoft....the little owl....the heat off the main board.
The hours spent hacking code so I could eat the whole maze in Ms PacMan.
[I remember using some primitive music software ...I think it only made keyboard sounds...no sequencing....or was it one of those programs that came in a computer magazine.]
Ahhh BBC model B you were great. ____________________ Diabolical homemade music Bandcamp and Soundcloud
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Howling Terror |
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Posted: 10:21 - 25 Jul 2020 Post subject: |
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Yes, also similar to the mags for fishing but without the free waggler on the front cover.
Exciting times they were for Post-Punk Geeks.
Many of us PPGs went on to program VCRs for OAPs.
Some of us had real sex, often by mistake and sometimes without the aid of a RS232.
Sure we had floppies but they were big floppies. ____________________ Diabolical homemade music Bandcamp and Soundcloud
Singer songwriter, Artist and allround good bloke Listen to Andrew Susan Johnston here
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BanditsHigh Worse than a woman
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Posted: 16:50 - 25 Jul 2020 Post subject: |
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Still got a Beeb Model B, Master and my Risc PC ... the good old days |
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Posted: 22:40 - 25 Jul 2020 Post subject: |
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Oh dear just spent a good 30 minutes playing space invaders and it was quite addictive |
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Nobby the Bastard Harley Gaydar
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The Shaggy D.A. Super Spammer
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Jeez, this takes me back to when my lad and I copied code line by line
from a mag to play a shitty game on an Atari 800XL
Tapes? cartridges? floppies? you lot don't know your born. ____________________ bikers smell of wee |
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WD Forte wrote: | Jeez, this takes me back to when my lad and I copied code line by line
from a mag to play a shitty game on an Atari 800XL
Tapes? cartridges? floppies? you lot don't know your born. |
Aye, I had one of those "52 volume encyclopedia you buy each week" type things, listings for games and things for Spectrum, Beeb, C64 and... my Dragon 32 My dad used to help out typing them in. He was useless with computers but still had keyboard skills from his teletyper days in the army. Happy times ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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bhinso wrote: | Hong Kong Phooey wrote: | Hours playing Chuckie Egg, programming shitty type in games. Trying to create better ones and failing, machine code was not possible for us noobs. |
Yeah I learnt to code in BASIC from about age 8 to 13. The good thing was it stood me in good stead for things like mathematics and logic in future life.
The problem, as you say, you could only get so far with BASIC. The last game I wrote was flying a plane round the world, shooting stuff down. I made the plane move across the screen, which then refreshed to the next screen once it reached the edge.
What I really wanted was 'scrolling', i.e. the plane stayed fixed but the background moved. You needed not only 'scrolling' but 'screen memory'. I actually asked an expert at a games convention how to do this and they said forget it lol. |
Not too bad if you're moving only the x axis, you're adding one column and deleting the other. Your small plane foreground sprite must have been drawn over the top of whatever was there before. A lot of memory limited game backgrounds are procedurally generated, so modified sine waves for hills, parallax effect with two sets of hills then draw player over the top. ____________________
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BanditsHigh Worse than a woman
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bhinso World Chat Champion
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Posted: 21:08 - 24 Aug 2020 Post subject: |
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My 10 year old nephew is really interested in coding and wanted to learn.
I remembered this post and downloaded a decent Amstrad CPC emulator.
Funnily enough, he's amazed with the programming despite the severe limitations of the system (16 colours, 188kb disk space, LOL)
Brings back a lot of memories too |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 3 years, 217 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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