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Re: Did anyone get published in mags? Bamaco24-Feb-04 2:15 Bamaco2 4-Feb-04 2:15  I got published in a small newsletter, CUGOM (Commodore user group of Montreal). We could exchange diskettes of stuff we worked on against demos and shareware. I didn't know it at first, but I got selected for a "one liner" contest: the most fun program we could write in basic that would fit on 1 line. I won that contest! It was an animation of a pyramid using "keyboard graphics". It could only be typed in by using the "two letters" abbreviated basic keywords. I remember that for the last two characters, I could not ":goto 0" "g" "shift o" "0" because that would overflow the maximum of 80 characters for a line in basic. I had to "r" "shift u" (for run) to enable the endless loop. Re: Did anyone get published in mags? Alexander M.,4-Feb-04 3:02 Alexander M., 4-Feb-04 3:02  i created a formula evaluator, too... but no graph function yet... QueueUserAPC... Don't try it, just do it! Re: Did anyone get published in mags? Blake Miller5-Feb-04 4:46 Blake Miller 5-Feb-04 4:46  I had a BASIC article in an early MacTutor. I had a couple Tech tips in Windows Developer's Journal (when it used to be called Tech Specialist - in its early days). I had one on programming the parallel port directly from MS-DOS in an embedded programming journal (don't even remember the name of that magazine). I tried for one on OWL (Object Windows Library) for Borland C++ in Tech Specialist, but the article was too long. Another reason to contribute to CodeProject - no article length limits! Now I just hang out and lurk, occasionally commenting or submitting something to CodeProject. It is less financially rewarding to do so, but more psychologically rewarding. Re: Did anyone get published in mags? Michael P Butler5-Feb-04 8:46 Michael P Butler 5-Feb-04 8:46  Michael Dunn wrote: I wrote up an article and submitted it to Compute's Gazette (a mag that covered C= computers) but they didn't accept it I submitted a couple of things to various publications, sadly none ever got used. I've still got the rejection letters somewhere. Michael But you know when the truth is told, That you can get what you want or you can just get old, Your're going to kick off before you even get halfway through. When will you realise... Vienna waits for you? - "The Stranger," Billy Joel MC-10! Dr. Ferd DeChezno3-Feb-04 8:05 Dr. Ferd DeChezno 3-Feb-04 8:05  I was about 6-7 and my pops got it for my brother (who is 3 years older than me). But he used it a few times but it never got him.... it hit my stimulus HARD CORE! I would steal it all the time and screw around with it. Then came the Vic-20.. then it died.. then I Got another one and then.. I got an 8086 with a monochrome screen that was awesome. Ahh ya... I was in grade 8 showing my classmates how I made graphics on the Vic-20. People were downright amazed by it..... geeks rule! Re: MC-10! bradw2k5-Feb-04 6:42 bradw2k 5-Feb-04 6:42  By the time we got some C64's at school I could write a fun little space race game in about 1 minute and 3 or 4 lines of BASIC. Other kids were amazed, but the teacher was not happy! Brad Williams Re: MC-10! fdisano5-Feb-04 8:43 fdisano 5-Feb-04 8:43  HAHAHA ya I used to do those in BASIC on the Apple II. People were like "whoa he's like a rockstar".. and I'm like "no.. better!" hahhahah <geeks> rule! Sharp MZ-700 Braulio Dez3-Feb-04 3:48 Braulio Dez 3-Feb-04 3:48  Did anyone started with that "thing" ... My brother was going to buy an MSX and in the shop they tell him "well... we don't have MSX we have MZ that is better" XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD... well... we have to learn programming... not very good games to play with that machine.... 8 years Alexander M.,3-Feb-04 3:12 Alexander M., 3-Feb-04 3:12  at the age of 8 my father introduced me in programming visual basic because he had to code a small database for his company(he isn't a coder), i was very interested and started coding own small screensavers at the age of 12 vb became extremly boring (and slow - i had a AMD 486 at that time ), and after coding little games using vb i started coding visual c++, the one and only some "limitations" made it necessary to learn assembler and PHP... i was bored, so there were also some other languages like perl or java i was learning. Don't try it, just do it! Re: 8 years Mardawi3-Feb-04 3:38 Mardawi 3-Feb-04 3:38  me 2, i started programming at 8, our school was teaching GWBasic since the 3rd grade, nothing more than input and output, but i got really excieted, and started to read books, then basic wasn't fun anymore, so i went after C/C++ which is the greatest ever! Re: 8 years Member 6395123-Feb-04 11:44 Member 639512 3-Feb-04 11:44  I was 8 too, but I started with Quick Basic... Now I'm using Visual C++ 6.0 Texas Instruments TI-59C Eddie Velasquez3-Feb-04 1:01 Eddie Velasquez 3-Feb-04 1:01  Oh, man. That was way back when the years weren't numbered! I also played with: Sinclair Z80, Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer and Commodore 64. My first PC was a Tandy 1000: 4.77Mhz 8080 w/64K of ram... it was the real deal baby! If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution - Robert Sewell Re: Texas Instruments TI-59C brownfox3-Feb-04 8:13 brownfox 3-Feb-04 8:13  Old good times... I gues not many of you remember the ancient mainframe machine like that with 4k x 45 bits RAM running as fast as 20000 op/s! That was my first comp with ALGOL-60 and "autocode" (a predecessor of assembler). Eddie Velasquez wrote: Tandy 1000: 4.77Mhz 8080 Well, your Tandy was an advanced device! As far as I remember the genuine Intel 8080 was 2 MHz. When they introduced the 8085 @2.5 MHz we said "Wow! It's cool! It's fast!" Re: Texas Instruments TI-59C Eddie Velasquez3-Feb-04 9:58 Eddie Velasquez 3-Feb-04 9:58  brownfox wrote: Well, your Tandy was an advanced device! As far as I remember the genuine Intel 8080 was 2 MHz. Well, you know... I was braggin'! If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution - Robert Sewell Became a geek at age 9 Michael Dunn2-Feb-04 12:07 Michael Dunn 2-Feb-04 12:07  From 4th-6th grade I attended the elementary school that my grandmom taught at, and she was my ride to/from school, so I often was stuck at school for 2-3 hours after classes ended. When I was in 4th grade (or maybe 5th, I forget which) there was an after-school class in the library teaching basic BASIC on Apple //e's. Oh the excitement! Graphics! Later that year, for open house (a night-time thing where parents came to visit the school and classrooms) I wrote a cheezy little "welcome to open house" program, complete with stick-figure house and opening door. Hey, by 1981/82's technology standards it was pretty bloody cool --Mike-- Ericahist | CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | Homepage | 1ClickPicGrabber | RightClick-Encrypt Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? I think so Brain, but if we shaved our heads, we'd look like weasels! Re: Became a geek at age 9 Alexander M.,3-Feb-04 10:32 Alexander M., 3-Feb-04 10:32  yeah, that technology rocked!!! it's a pity that i was born in '86 assembler in the 80s would have been really funny. Don't try it, just do it! Re: Became a geek at age 9 Michael Dunn3-Feb-04 12:54 Michael Dunn 3-Feb-04 12:54  Alexander M. wrote: it's a pity that i was born in '86 awww, you missed '80s hair styles and Hair Metal bands. --Mike-- Ericahist | CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | Homepage | 1ClickPicGrabber | RightClick-Encrypt Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? I think so Brain, but how will we fit the hamster inside the accordion? Re: Became a geek at age 9 Alexander M.,4-Feb-04 2:58 Alexander M., 4-Feb-04 2:58  I'm always too late... *CRY*!!!! Don't try it, just do it! Re: Became a geek at age 9 Michael Dunn4-Feb-04 9:12 Michael Dunn 4-Feb-04 9:12  Watch the movie This is Spinal Tap for a good idea of what it was like back then... --Mike-- Ericahist | CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | Homepage | 1ClickPicGrabber | RightClick-Encrypt Actual sign at the laundromat I go to: "No tinting or dying." Re: Became a geek at age 9 Alexander M.,5-Feb-04 5:43 Alexander M., 5-Feb-04 5:43  hmmmm, never heard of this movie... i have to check if i can get it here in germany. Don't try it, just do it! Re: TI-99/4A... Erik Thompson2-Feb-04 12:04 Erik Thompson 2-Feb-04 12:04  Yeah I started on one also. Had the "offical" TI Tape Cassette. The voice synthesizer mod package and went through at least 4 sets of game controls. no game like Parsec!!! I was pissed when I found out my parents gave it away. Cheers, -Erik Re: TI-99/4A... Almighty Bob4-Feb-04 11:15 Almighty Bob 4-Feb-04 11:15  ah the voice synthesizer. I had it and the tape drive as well. although I wasn't much into programming in those days. my father wrote a frogger clone that ran off of the tape drive. fond memories. /bb|[^b]{2}/ Allen Bradley PLC Andrew Torrance2-Feb-04 9:23 Andrew Torrance 2-Feb-04 9:23  With magnetic core memory of course .;P Apple IIgs kvgros2-Feb-04 6:55 kvgros 2-Feb-04 6:55  Applesoft Basic, 6502/65816 Assembly (Orca/M Assembler), and, eventually when compilers became available, Pascal and C... ...thankfully, my paychecks today more than make up for the dorkiness of a 9 year old in 1984 Kevin Grossnicklaus SSE kvgros@SSEinc.com www.SSEinc.com Why programming on vic-20 ? Bamaco22-Feb-04 6:01 Bamaco2 2-Feb-04 6:01  I just could not buy that many games. I remember getting Omega Race with my vic-20 then mail-order a star trek clone on a tape cassette. Other game existed, but not that many. I ended up having to type most of the programs (games) from compute! and compute gazette magazines. Then they would fail to work and I would have to "debug" them. Most of the time, it was a typing mistake but I felt in control. This carried on to the era of the commodore 64, of course. Most game came with article that were the era's equivalent to The Code Project so I learned a lot from that. In the process, I have learned english and I have learned how to program. Ah the memories of the good old days... All this to say that when I officially started my 1st assembly language computer science course, on the Apple ][, Our teacher wanted to have us print "hello world" during a 60 minute lab class. After 30 seconds, I asked my teacher how I could trap the raster blank interrupt. He told me "Interupts?" then opened up the cover of the Apple ][ and pointed to some trace on the board, explaining how the Apple ][ did not deal with interrupts for any of the on board periferials but I could short this pin and that pin to start an interrupt. I remember feeling that the commodore 64 architecture was way ahead of the apple ][ and it was.

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