BBC Micro, now that's a blast from the past. IT in school consisted of playing games on the Micro and nothing else. Happy days.
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Spending hours typing lines of BASIC into a ZX81 on that horrendous membrane “keyboard”. *shudder*
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Are you TRYING to be insulting?!
30s isn't old!
& sorry to burst your bubble...but it IS every person...you WILL suffer it at some point. Slowing reactions are just a part of the aging process. You can learn to compensate with experience (especially if you play the same game for years) but you'll start to lose those reaction based 1v1's by the time you get to 30. The decline starts in your mid-20s.
Age is just a state of mind! I'm 62 in November & can still hold my own with young guns on CoD MP & Battlefield (on PC). Yes reaction time naturally slows but as you stated you tend to compromise. There's more than one way to skin a cat
I wrote a version of frogger for a Sharp MZ-80K! In Z80 assembler.
The OS had to be loaded from a cassette tape before the machine was useable. It only had a 256 character set displayable. I had to solder in a plug in card that allowed all 256 characters to be re-defined then switched in over the standard set to get the frog characters and logs etc. Happy days!
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The GPU deal forum/subheading has now disappeared for me, anyone else?
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Never saw it in the first place. They’re struggling with it, I believe
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Yeh I have been reading up about it, just found it odd that it's been there a while and now disappeared, been keeping an eye open to see what deals they may have coming up as really want a 3080 but can't afford scalper prices lol
Back when the free game you got with a magazine was a booklet with the code for making it.
56 and i concour!Age is just a state of mind! I'm 62 in November & can still hold my own with young guns on CoD MP & Battlefield (on PC). Yes reaction time naturally slows but as you stated you tend to compromise. There's more than one way to skin a cat
I had two versions of the Acorn Electron years before I ever got myself on the PC train.
Was that the one that was partnered with Tandy ? Remember them?Bet you guys to young to remember the Dragon 32, <<<< im almost 58
Not sure this is something I want to 'win' but the first game I played that I hadn't written myself (in Fortran, to run on an ICL mainframe), was the original Colossal Cave Adventure, running on a PDP-10 that belonged to the DoD in the US.
Not a lot of graphics back then:
Not a lot of graphics back then
:That's so cool. I remember the old cassettes. Had them on my Amstrad CPC 464 and Commodore. Used to drive me nuts waiting for the damn thing to load only for loading to fail