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PLUGH! XYZZY! Dredging my memory for the first version I played. It was written in FORTRAN as I recall, ported from DEC-something to Interdata 32bit. Late 1970s? Played on a TTY so you could cheat by looking back to previous runs. One of my colleagues mapped the cave on about 6 sheets of 11x15 line printer paper. He had immense trouble with the "all alike" maze.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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We played on a TI Mini back around 1979 - after work every night some of us would stay back and play. Then I discovered how to send a message to another terminal and we tortured one of the guys by occasionally sending 'A small dwarf with bags of gold runs past you to the west' messages while he was playing
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: if you could make money?
Stick to whatever keeps you more motivated.
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* Cooking
* Hiking
* Garden
I would like to do cooking (a guest house) for living and make coding my primary hobby, but that's unrealistic...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Horse riding and snooker. Learned to ride a horse 4 years ago when I was 46 mainly to have a shared interest with my partner and loved it. My nag (a 16.2 Irish Draught x TB) and I entered our first jumping competition last year over the baby jumps and won it, so this year we're aiming towards working-hunter classes at a local level.
Just returned to snooker after a 25 gap and forgot how much I loved the game, and just how bloody difficult it is! I'll probably never get back to my best (county-level amateur) standard, but will give it my best effort.
If I was able to make a living at them would I swap?.. Yes, in a heartbeat. Life's too short to be wishing your life away in IT management if you have any other viable option.
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Genealogical research and science fiction. No, I prefer to keep my hobbies as hobbies.
Ad astra - both ways!
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Volunteer on a heritage railway (portering and loco restoration); wildlife + environmental stuff.
Not sure I'd want to do anything on a full-time basis, but it would be nice to be paid for doing stuff I really enjoy. Though as others say, once you get paid for it and have to go to "work" then I think almost anything would lose some of its shine.
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Recent time, I'm tired of coding & really don't want to code much anymore at work. It's been 14+ years. Ofcourse it's not that much long as I have seen coders with 30+ years exp. even in CP. I think current era making things crazy on coding to me. So planning to move away from coding.
BTW I have babies[^] & 'll take care of them.
Apart from work personally I'm planning to create utilities(Freeware/Opensource). And I don't want to use big softwares for development. I want to use lightweight applications like Electron[^] or NW.js[^].
R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: What do you guys do and, if you could, would you swap coding for your primary hobby if you could make money? Comics, Books & Films. Planning to make my own in future. Waiting for right time(and budget).
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I've Draw anime/furry art, Blacksmith, Dick around with electronics, muck around with music, 3d print, play PC games, build computers,mod games etc....
I am of the firm opinion that i should have a life span of 800 years and that the day should have 36 hours so i can get all the hobby time i need
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Karate, trick roping, gun spinning, whip cracking, fire whips, fire staff spinning, fire poi spinning, fire breathing, reading.
Yes I would probably swap...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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Sounds dangerous, I speak from experience (paper cuts hurt!)
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Just trying to balance out the nerd image people get when you tell them you're a computer programmer.
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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Beer, blather and general indolence.
Or to translate that into the "Hobbies and interests" section entry: "Chess, cryptic crosswords and literature."
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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You forgot the tits[^]...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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I play Bass, but I wouldn't want to get paid for anything I do purely for enjoyment, the moment you do that it becomes work not fun... (I learnt that with electronics and programming!)
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Playing guitar and drink beer, yes I would switch if I could earn what I do coding to play guitar and drink beer with the same guys playing what we do now.
I like what I do, but if I could code for a hobby, maybe I could enjoy it more.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I build cars that offend the sensitivities of climate alarmists.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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A someone who did that in a previous life you get a thumbs up from me!
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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I do some coding in my spare time (arduino stuff, a bit of this and that) and I used to spend a lot of my spare time riding my motorcycle, but since getting knocked off about 5 years ago I haven't really gt around to replacing the 'bike. These days I spend most of my spare time volunteering at my local amateur theatre on the lighting crew. Nine shows a year, each lasting two weeks per month, keeps us pretty busy.
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Unfortunately I chose a hobby of Continuous Improvement.
The benefit to my primary job has been great...
And luckily I have photos of my family... I am confident I would recognize most of them in a lineup.
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I got an Arduino a couple of months ago and am having fun with that. I would not want to make a career of it.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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Archaeology (a former career and passion), with which I'm happy to just supplement my pay but otherwise it pays too little, has no job security, typically offers no health insurance, and you end up living out of hotels a lot despite having a perfectly fine home of your own that you pay for.
Also, as evidenced by my full second refrigerator, there is my passion for beer hunting and drinking, especially New England IPAs (yeah, I'm one of those guys and unapologetic about it because they taste so damn good)... and (duh) I would love to get paid to do that, but also because it would offset the medical bills I will incur later in life due to all the beer drinking.
Oddly, the more I do either of those hobbies the less I want to be coding.
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Race around in the woods on offroad motorcycles, target shoot, make something cool in the shop when I have the time. I'm happy making money coding.
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- Photography
- Chainmaille
- Macrame
- Creative writing
- Old house maintenance
The photography has been a lifelong hobby that I'm now trying to turn into a business. Not sure if I'd do it full time even if I could -- if I did, I'd only find that coding becomes a hobby.
The chainmaille has also been a lifelong hobby, although it's been on the back burner ever since I broke my ring cutter. I've been substituting with macrame a bit, and it's fun too. It should get interesting when I make a new ring cutter this summer as I'm sure I'll end up merging the two.
Creative writing recently added itself to my list of hobbies. I've always wanted to give it a try, but now the characters keep wanting more bits of their story told. I'm a bit concerned this hobby will take over my life.
Lastly, if you have an old house, you already know that maintaining it is a hobby
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Work outside on anything in the summer; code indoors during the winter.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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