Re: Video games are a waste of life

From	vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
Newsgroups	talk.bizarre
Subject	Re: Video games are a waste of life
Date	2023-06-24 07:47 +0000
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On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 03:47:01 -0700 (PDT), nikolai kingsley wrote:

>> In 8th grade, I wrote a game on the Commodore PET. You would maneuver
>> your avatar (an asterisk) through a landscape of constantly-changing
>> random blocks appearing and disappearing.
> 
> 
> coding games on eight-bit computers was a Thing for people of our
> generation, roughly. fond memories of hand coding 6502 machine code to
> move sections of a map onto screen memory.

I did it all with BASIC, though there was peek-ing and poke-ing
going on, too for the display.  It used the numeric keypad
for movement, so I could use the number as an array index for
x-offset and y-offset values, something I figured out to
replace a very slow if-then-else.

But this was all over 40 years ago...no classes, just "here's the
manual, have at it."  (I think us kids showed the teachers more than they
showed us.)

That was middle school though.  High school, we had a network of
Apple ][+'s on a Corvus hard drive, a whopping 20MB.  And a computer
class, where we learned Pascal...but that gave us access to the lab, where
we could play with something called "graForth"...

And there I was, with my dutiful white hat, reading the
book "Beneath Apple DOS" to figure out how to mitigate
a security flaw with the Corvus DOS:  one could type
"CATALOG V100", and be instantly transported to the volume
of user 100.  I patched it to immediately reboot if someone went
outside of their own volume.  This started a bit of an
arms race.  Hey, we were kids back then.

-- 
-v

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Video games are a waste of life "Pr. Mandrake" <niodoru@hotmail.com> - 2022-12-11 14:25 -0800
  Re: Video games are a waste of life Creon <creon@creon.earth> - 2022-12-13 06:02 +0000
    Re: Video games are a waste of life "Pr. Mandrake" <niodoru@hotmail.com> - 2023-01-16 13:30 -0800
      Re: Video games are a waste of life "Pr. Mandrake" <niodoru@hotmail.com> - 2023-03-09 03:48 -0800
    Re: Video games are a waste of life "Pr. Mandrake" <niodoru@hotmail.com> - 2023-01-29 18:08 -0800
    Re: Video games are a waste of life "Lane \"Stonehowler\" Waldby" <wichitajayhawks@msn.com> - 2025-07-20 20:13 -0500
  Re: Video games are a waste of life nikolai kingsley <sheramil@gmail.com> - 2023-06-16 19:31 -0700
    Re: Video games are a waste of life nikolai kingsley <sheramil@gmail.com> - 2023-06-17 17:07 -0700
      Re: Video games are a waste of life entwickeln14 <entwickeln14@gmail.com> - 2023-06-20 18:35 -0700
        Re: Video games are a waste of life vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2023-06-22 21:08 +0000
          Re: Video games are a waste of life entwickeln14 <entwickeln14@gmail.com> - 2023-06-22 15:13 -0700
            Re: Video games are a waste of life vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2023-06-22 22:48 +0000
              Re: Video games are a waste of life entwickeln14 <entwickeln14@gmail.com> - 2023-06-23 12:17 -0700
          Re: Video games are a waste of life nikolai kingsley <sheramil@gmail.com> - 2023-06-23 03:47 -0700
            Re: Video games are a waste of life vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2023-06-24 07:47 +0000
              Re: Video games are a waste of life entwickeln14 <entwickeln14@gmail.com> - 2023-06-24 07:14 -0700
                Apple ][+ (was: Re: Video games are a waste of life vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2023-07-01 10:33 +0000
          Re: Video games are a waste of life "Lane \"Stonehowler\" Waldby" <wichitajayhawks@msn.com> - 2025-07-20 20:21 -0500
            Space/Time tradeoff (was: Re: Video games are a waste of life) vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-07-21 06:54 +0000
              Re: Space/Time tradeoff "Lane \"Stonehowler\" Waldby" <wichitajayhawks@msn.com> - 2025-07-21 02:19 -0500
                Re: Space/Time tradeoff vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-07-21 07:44 +0000
                Re: Space/Time tradeoff "Lane \"Stonehowler\" Waldby" <wichitajayhawks@msn.com> - 2025-07-21 02:48 -0500
                Re: Space/Time tradeoff Doc Hammerslack <dochammerslack@creon.earth> - 2025-07-21 07:57 +0000
                Re: Space/Time tradeoff "Lane \"Stonehowler\" Waldby" <wichitajayhawks@msn.com> - 2025-07-21 03:05 -0500
                Re: Space/Time tradeoff vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-07-21 08:25 +0000
                Re: Space/Time tradeoff "Lane \"Stonehowler\" Waldby" <wichitajayhawks@msn.com> - 2025-07-21 04:04 -0500
                Re: Space/Time tradeoff snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2025-07-21 12:12 +0100
                Re: Space/Time tradeoff "kaboota@kala.boo" <kaboota@kala.boo> - 2025-07-21 06:45 -0700
      Re: Video games are a waste of life "Lane \"Stonehowler\" Waldby" <wichitajayhawks@msn.com> - 2025-07-20 20:20 -0500
    Re: Video games are a waste of life "Lane \"Stonehowler\" Waldby" <wichitajayhawks@msn.com> - 2025-07-20 20:14 -0500

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