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darkpuppet,Dec 14 2006, 03:49 PM Wrote:

SliverSteeda,Dec 14 2006, 04:44 PM Wrote:we got our first c64 when i was 10... remember those Game code books. where you had to spend hours  entering the code, line by line, in order  to play a text game or at best a a game like wizards of war... oh god... i need a beer.
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Compute! and Compute's Gazette I believe.

Basic, MXL and MXLII. Nothing was more annoying than spending a week typing in a game and then having a number transpose in a big DATA block or MXL...
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Oh hell, been there, did that. One program for IBM BASIC from Compute! took me something like a total of 24hours to type in... only to find out that it wouldn't work on the version of BASIC on the IBM PC clone I had at the time :angry:

If nothing else at least the Windows OS minimized nightmare scenarios like that :P

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