alt Hacker NewsMy first computer as well! I remember typing game code from a magazine and saving it to the cassette tape. My big Christmas present the next year was the giant expansion box with the floppy drive.
My first computer as well! I remember typing game code from a magazine and saving it to the cassette tape. My big Christmas present the next year was the giant expansion box with the floppy drive.
Same here, I'm in the TI-99 as first computer club as well.
98% of what I did on it was just play cartridge games, but I did have a year or so of trying to type in Basic programs from library magazines. None of them ever came close to working since they were never for TI's weird dialect of Basic and I didn't know anything about the differences. Mostly what I did was CALL COLOR instructions for some pretty colors. I think the furthest I ever got with Basic was the "higher/lower" guess-the-number game. Eventually then we got a Tandy 1000 with GW-Basic and I moved on to that.
Parsec still rocks hard though. I've rolled over the score on it: http://dos486.com/misc/parsec.jpg