Computer punch cards?
Is there an app for those?
shareHa.
I got a Data Processing degree (2 yr) in 1984. In one of the classes we learned how to keypunch. It takes stacks & stacks of those cards to hold even small amounts of data. Good riddance!
I remember back in the days, must have been the 70s or so, the old DEC PDP-11 or so had paper tape memory, I guess that was an upgrade from the cards as they were much longer and you could store them on a roll. But they broke easily, though.
shareI learned to program BASIC and FORTRAN on a DEC 10. Awwwww... those were the days... trying to make a D&D program. :D
shareYep, BASIC, RPG, FORTRAN. Write the sucker & wait for it to compile. Get rejected for errors. Fix & repeat.
share10 ""Basic was so old"
20 GOTO 10
I remember leading the basics about BASIC in 4th grade and that's about all I remember lol
10 ""Basic was so old"
20 GOTO 10
?Syntax error in 10
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10 ""Basic was so old"
20 GOTO 10
?Syntax error in 10
I think I messed up line 10 lol. I forgot how to make it spell out words share
I think it was print or println. I took Fortran before Basic and get them confused.
shareI think I messed up line 10 lol. I forgot how to make it spell out words
10 INPUT "How old are you";a
20 IF a < 40 THEN PRINT "You're too young!" : END
30 PRINT "Welcome old-timer!"
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ahaha!
we had to program a similar program in Basic, back when I was in 8th grade - that was in the mid-nineties!
damn, now I feel old and I'm not even 35.
ahaha!
we had to program a similar program in Basic, back when I was in 8th grade - that was in the mid-nineties!
damn, now I feel old and I'm not even 35.
My friend took a computer class in high school, but it had too many math prerequisites for me. One day he told me that they were supposed to write a program to "do something", but he could never accurately describe what it was that the program was supposed to do. I was going to help him, but I had no idea what the assignment required. By that time I was already writing small utility programs for my C64 to convert various files from one format to another.
I loved the game Lode Runner, but when Championship Lode Runner came out, they took out the cheats and added a pain in the ass save system. Every time you loaded a save, it subtracted one life! So I figured out the level format and wrote a program that would convert a copy of the game to a data disk suitable for use with the original game, cheats and all.
Sadly, my programming skills never progressed much beyond that. I occasionally write small scripts to automate things in Windows, but get easily frustrated as the Microsoft programmers seem to have gone out of their way to complicate things as much as possible, since what any given command will do seems to be entirely dependent on where it's being used.
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I loved load runner! And getting a copied game on a floppy disk. And when it was a copy, I remember it would say something like "Hacked by DJ Flopy Hack!" Or the programmers nickname. Did you add in something like that?
shareI loved load runner! And getting a copied game on a floppy disk. And when it was a copy, I remember it would say something like "Hacked by DJ Flopy Hack!" Or the programmers nickname. Did you add in something like that?
Not for the converted copy of Championship Load Runner. The original Lode Runner had a built-in level editor and you could save the levels that you made to a data disk. My program just turned the CLR disk into a data disk so you could load and play the levels with the original game.
I did put messages on some other games though. I cracked the manual protection on a couple games (Battle Chess, one of the Jack Nichlaus Golf games), and I used my Super Snapshot cartridge to freeze copies of a few games that otherwise weren't available as 100% working NTSC copies. Games like Arkanoid, Speed Buggy/Buggy Boy, etc. I used to rent the games from the mail order company Rent-A-Disk, and as long as the game loaded all into memory at once, I could use the cartridge to dump a copy to disk. Then I'd put my message on it and upload it to all the local C64 BBS's.
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