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How old was gates when he wrote this thing??
Ah, programmers. I love how we can show the logic behind 3 correct ages for Bill when he wrote this :)
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Could line numbers be out of order? Like, if I did this: 10 PRINT "1" 30 PRINT "2" 20 GOTO 10 What would print out? Just a bunch of "1"s or "12"s?
Not an especially valuable comment from me here, but the fact that people who are probably very technically literate can ask this question makes me feel really rather old.
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> Macs suck for games and they always have Not in the 80s. PCs were DOS machines for the office and if you wanted to play a game the Mac, Atari or Amiga were much nicer plattforms.
The C64 was vastly superior for games, and the Amiga anyway. Macs never played a role for gaming at this time, because of their price and distribution channels. Only fairly rich professors and graphic artists were able to afford one. Ataris were never really that good for gaming either, but they were used a lot by pro audio folks. They had superior midi capabilities and programs.
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spacebar works (it's the only key needed).
The "any" key also works, as well as the onscreen keys (e.g. F1) It's not surprising that this simulation of a 36 year old 4.77Mhz desktop runs fine in javascript on my 1.3GHz quadcore $40 phone... but in a way, it is.
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People were amazed at it running on the PC, and running very well.
Yes, but the appeareance of Doom on PC is not because PC was a "tinkerer's platform" as the argument in the parent post goes. The tinkering part leading to the creation of Doom was done on NeXT.
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Ah, programmers. I love how we can show the logic behind 3 correct ages for Bill when he wrote this :)
Then we can don our statistical machine learning hat and make an ensemble model out of the three sub-models. Unless we do something exotic we're probably going to predict 25 as the point estimate of {24, 25, 26}.
Playable here: http://www.pcjs.org/devices/pcx86/machine/5150/cga/64kb/donk... "The above simulation is configured for a clock speed of 4.77Mhz, with 64Kb of RAM and a CGA display, using the original IBM PC Model 5150 ROM BIOS and CGA font ROM. This configuration also includes a predefined state, with PC-DOS 1.0 already booted and DONKEY.BAS ready to run. And now that PCx86 automatically saves all your changes (subje…