1988: P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A.
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1988: P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A.
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#2"Mrazik" was another text game in this genre - you were some kind of agent infiltrating a Soviet military base.
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#3This isn't loading for me(mobile or wifi), which I find weird since it's hosted on substack.
Edit: seems like all substack pages are down for me (except home). Not a good look for a service that hosts something so simple to get right. And too bad for this guy who is missing out on the HN subscriber wave.
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#4"Rylek dryly remembers a then-typical experience with magazine program listings"
Ahh, yep. I remember the fun of typing lots of BASIC DATA line entries from a magazine into my C64, and getting something very unexpected, and no obvious way to find/fix the typo. Getting a VicModem was a godsend, so I could just download things and go.
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#5This isn't loading for me(mobile or wifi), which I find weird since it's hosted on substack. Edit: seems like all substack pages are down for me (except home). Not a good look for a service that hosts something so simple to get right. And too bad for this guy who is missing out on the HN subscriber wave.
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#6Since Substack is currently down, the following Ars Technica article on the same subject (AFAIK) is a good alternative:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/10/how-indiana-jones-fou...
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#7This isn't loading for me(mobile or wifi), which I find weird since it's hosted on substack. Edit: seems like all substack pages are down for me (except home). Not a good look for a service that hosts something so simple to get right. And too bad for this guy who is missing out on the HN subscriber wave.
I must have got in early. Great read!
Capable people enduring in and working against hard times and painful leadership.
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#8"Rylek dryly remembers a then-typical experience with magazine program listings" Ahh, yep. I remember the fun of typing lots of BASIC DATA line entries from a magazine into my C64, and getting something very unexpected, and no obvious way to find/fix the typo. Getting a VicModem was a godsend, so I could just download things and go.
Same here. Compute!'s Gazette. There's an archive if you ever get the hankering for nostalgia lol. https://archive.org/details/compute-gazette
I don't know how many times I spent many hours over several days typing pages of code from the magazines into the C64, have it be buggy, spend hours trying to fix the bugs only to have them release the code for their bug fixes the next issue, which took a month. It was very slow learning.
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#9"Rylek dryly remembers a then-typical experience with magazine program listings" Ahh, yep. I remember the fun of typing lots of BASIC DATA line entries from a magazine into my C64, and getting something very unexpected, and no obvious way to find/fix the typo. Getting a VicModem was a godsend, so I could just download things and go.
I remember buck in the time in Yugoslavia one of the federal radio stations broadcasted Spectrum computer games over the air (FM). You could record the game to the tape and actually play it later.
Copying games was as simple as copying a music tape, you only needed a tape recorder with two heads, those were very popular at the time for the same reason.
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#10"Rylek dryly remembers a then-typical experience with magazine program listings" Ahh, yep. I remember the fun of typing lots of BASIC DATA line entries from a magazine into my C64, and getting something very unexpected, and no obvious way to find/fix the typo. Getting a VicModem was a godsend, so I could just download things and go.
You used VicModem from behind the Iron Curtain?