Does anyone remember the "old" computers and programs?
By sezziek
@sezziek (28)
September 16, 2009 8:56am CST
As a "child" of the Eighties (well ok, a teenager!) I had an old Sinclair ZX81 which I used to have to progam myself in BASIC (Beginners Allpurpose Symbolic Instruction Code) if I wanted it to do anything.It took ages to get any programme to work!. I then moved onto a BBC Microcompter Which I still have (and it WORKS- no I'm not selling it!) I also recently found a couple of wesites which emulators of these and other lovely golden oldies plus the games in ROM form. I have had lots of fun playing original Elite, Fletchers Castle and Chuckie Egg and many other games. Does anyone remember these computers or games? What were your favourites and which games used to annoy you?
3 responses
@rosdimy (3926)
• Malaysia
17 Sep 09
My first home computer was the Oric 1. Not long after that I upgraded to the Oric Atmos, with 48kb of useable memory. It did not take long for me to get the hang of Oric BASIC. I created a few programs for my own use, and modified many others. The experience enabled me to write a program on a BBC.
The only commercial program that I had were OricMunch whic was tougher than PacMan, and a program where the task was to kill a certain number of rats in a given time.
All that I had were destroyed in a fire. But the memories still linger on.
@rosdimy (3926)
• Malaysia
17 Sep 09
Yes, it was great and fun.
Programmers had to be creative because of the small amount of available memory. That was how I learnt to use subroutines, similar to the use of procedures. As a result the programs I created were compact. Back in my country, a tuition student of mine started getting Ax for his programs, whereas the average of his class was C. He used the same method, something to be slightly proud of.
@MikaOkle (43)
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16 Sep 09
Please..I never heard that name in my computer world ..ever.I started my world of computer with p3 ,so may be too late compare to you.I rember I used to go coaching classes to learn DOS commands..funny no ?That man took me big amount to teach that stupid commands but now thanks to internet we have evrythg online to learn to enjou to play game and on and on and on.
