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ROGUE - it's a way of life!
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I have those two, although I never use them for gaming. Actually, I haven't used my Atari in almost 20 years... It's still sitting there somewhere.
For the ocassional games, I use either my cell phone, or my Pocket PC.
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Does everyone play a game? What about those of us who do not play games but prefer books or other methods of entertainment?
jimatjude
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I read tons of books, watch good movies, and play games. Now if someone can invent a puzzle type game (think Myst) that involves writing simple code to get the answer, I would probably be hooked. Solving interesting problems via coding is as good as playing a game. 
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."Edsger Dijkstra
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Don't be ridiculous, who does that?
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who dont.
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it is not because one plays games, that person has no other hobbies...
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jimatjude wrote: other methods of entertainment
How would you play Online-Poker without a computer?
Failure is not an option - it's built right in.
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Pinball Dreams.
Wizard ball.
Lots of stuff there to rock my...sigh...sad little world.
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Ha, somebody chose other and entered "your mom" WTF 
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who dont.
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Maybe he wanted to say that kids should play with their mom instead of staring at a screen. Strange answer... 
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There is no proof for this sentence.
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So what does somebody have to do to set the high score on Your Mom?
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There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who dont.
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Or better yet ... you'd have to be high to score on Your Mom.
"... you found the secret entrance in Your Mom ..."
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Yes I know I could just tick "My Computer", but surely having around 4Gb of game ROMS qualifies as something special when it comes to consoles.
Touch that again and you won't get any ice cream!
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I have a Commodore 16 and Commodore 128 - still working. Have recently purchased a modem for the C128 and am looking for any online gaming communities for Commodore (just joking with the last one...)
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I have an old PET sitting in the corner of my spare room.
It can play Reversi!
Yes, still works, don't know why?
Only ever turn it on when really ancient programmers turn up and laugh.
Sit them down at it and ask them to write something.
Oh, the Tears, The cries!
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Be proud to have lived in the days of the HY beginning...
After all someone has to tell our kids that programming is not only thinking your program and then waiting for Visual Studio version 2050 to write the code by itself (not be fouled - I use C# as well )...
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Some times I wish I kept my Commodore 64, but my little sister recently told me she learned a lot programming that thing. There where a couple of games that where great, but they apparently where never written to run on any thing else.
Too Bad! 
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."Edsger Dijkstra
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Some of them were and some of them weren't. It was pretty easy back then to re-map the kernel calls for an assembly language program and get it to run on an Apple or something else with a 6502 processor. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't (sound and sprites were the problem usually) I learned a lot coding that way. I had games that were written in BASIC on the Apple II at school, but I couldn't run them at home... so I would print out the code and type it into the Commodore, translating as I went along.
Also, back then it was not uncommon for software to be sold as a code listing, and you typed it in yourself. I had books of games and other software that was sold that way. This was excellent for learning because the first thing you wanted to do once you got it working was figure out how to make your ships invincible 
I've still got a working VIC-20 and Commodore 128... they were very well-made.
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When I was studying for my Associate in Electronics we programmed Apple’s using machine language only. At home I used Basic to program the 64. There was one game that had a split screen, you drove a vehicle that used a force field of some sort to move a ball and shot it at a goal, sort alike a futuristic soccer game on a small planet. I see a lot of potential in that game for multi-play over a network.
I should reinstall my old 5 inch drive in my old computer, so I can copy some of my old disks and games to 3.25. Every old computer at the last place I worked did not have a single old drive that worked.
All my older computers still work, but I have had 3 more modern ones crash. One took out both drives and I lost an algorithm that I could not figure out how to recreate. Oh well, back up often or at least what is important.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."Edsger Dijkstra
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The game you are refering to was called Ballblazers, by Lucasart, no less!
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I was a Commodore guy, although I knew friends with Apples so I got to use both over the years. I still have a 64 and a 128D (with the built-in 1571 and detachable keyboard) but I haven't touched them in ages.
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Working still with Commodore fascinates me because it reminds me the basis of programming. And it is always good to remember where everything started from. There is a very active Commodore community out there.
I heard of some guys who build a server for streaming audio based on a Commodore 64 (which was connected to the www via a pc)! The Commodore used a tape recorded and only one user could be online to hear the "music", which sounded not so good, but it worked!
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I have a working Commodore 64 Portable - all 40lbs of it with the little 4" screen. I have the Vic-20, 64, 128 and loved using them. It started me at programming all those many years ago.
Steve Maier
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