If there is anything that really gives me the nostalgia vibes, it's basic listings. So many good memories typing over listings and changing them to enhance or cheat. It was very educational as a child. Mags like this [0] fill me with joy even though it makes no more sense. At least I got to live it fully (my nostalgia vibes go from 1980-1988 around; after that it was more study/work; I was 14 in 1988 and teaching the computer classes at my high school as the teachers didn't understand anything).
I used to load up tapes for 15' on my spectrum and then poke around trying to understand what was under the hood.
All I had was a thick book in a language I didn't speak yet.
No internet, no friends to bounce it with. Infinite time.
Good times.
dahart•51m ago
Typing in BASIC programs from magazines… brings back memories. Remember the Mad Magazine that had a program to draw Alfred E. Neumann? Here I just found it: https://meatfighter.com/mad/
That and going to the weird room at the dept. of education across from the library that kept drawers full of floppies and sifting through all the random public domain code & shareware.
Tepix•5d ago
So, neither Claude nor ChatGPT were able to write a little javascript program to provide an optimal solution for a suicide burn. Did anyone else have more luck?
iconjack•5d ago
You can get more fuel by entering a negative Thrust value.
JKCalhoun•4h ago
You should file bug, open an issue.
drob518•3h ago
Better yet, submit a PR.
pizlonator•4h ago
I remember playing this when I was 8 years old! Much feels!
satisfice•4h ago
I remember programs like this when I had a TRS-80 Model 1.
anonzzzies•5d ago
[0] https://archive.org/details/msx-gids-nr.-08/mode/2up
citbl•5h ago
All I had was a thick book in a language I didn't speak yet.
No internet, no friends to bounce it with. Infinite time.
Good times.
dahart•51m ago
That and going to the weird room at the dept. of education across from the library that kept drawers full of floppies and sifting through all the random public domain code & shareware.