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Sow I'll pen my response by taking that with a grain of salt - wondering what's in store for us tomorrow. Meanwhile, at the risk of precipitating a riot, let chaos rain.
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*thunderous applause*
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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No. This is a barn-storm!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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 I have been to the UK Museum several times, going through there it was 'I wanted one of those!'& 'I had one of those'...
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Where is it located? I've been in the UK 7 times and never heard of it 
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I am pretty sure I had that game back in the day! 
My parents bought a C64 with two boxes full of floppies from an uncle.
I never played them all, but I do remember seeing that turtle.
I must admit I had no clue how it worked (which was true for most of the floppies) 
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Awesome! 
/ravi
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Congrats! That is really cool.
You got an early start on writing software.
I remember staring at games on C64 and wondering how the geniuses built that stuff.
Heck, I still feel that way. C64 programming ain't like you could open up Visual Studio and start typing like you can now.
So, yes, I'm saying you're obviously a genius.
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raddevus wrote: C64 programming ain't like you could open up Visual Studio and start typing like you can now.
Sure it was! And it was even easier -- you didn't have to open up an app first, just start typing:
10 PRINT "HI"
20 GOTO 10
RUN
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Marc Clifton wrote: Sure it was! And it was even easier
Were you really able to write your entire program in BASIC?
I thought you needed to know C64 Assembler or Machine Language to get anything valuable done.
How many lines of code did your program end up being? Any recollection of that? Just curious.
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Awesome
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
JaxCoder.com
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Missed out on that one sadly, being an Atarian 
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the horror !!!!!! maybe u should do a rewrite in wpf ...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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How do you know when you are an old developer?, Alex
...sorry, I thought this was Jeopardy.
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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Somewhere, deep in the recesses of the loft, I have a copy of "Computer & Video Games" magazine from, I'm guessing 1982 or 83 featuring the listing of my VIC20 fruit machine program.
This was all in Basic and used up every one of the 3,583 bytes available on the unexpanded machine.
I did later get a C64 but only ever used it for final year university project which was a demonstrator for a 256 channel digital lighting system (a few channels of sample hardware, along with the software).
This was Basic for the front end, creation and editing of lighting sequences etc but used assembly when running a sequence in the background.
Used the interrupt (60 times a second IIRC) to check if the level of any channel ought to be changed before handing back to the "OS"
Originally, used zero crossing detector circuit and some maths to decide the exact point in the mains cycle to turn the current on/off to get the desired brightness until luckily, someone brought out a chip that just let you set the level digitally and it took care of all the pesky on/off work with the power electronics.
However, if you ask me what happened yesterday ...
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(Bacon of the Day)
BACON!
(see JSOP post below)
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Hey - take that to the new Soapbox.
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Kevin!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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With the soapbox being shutdown on Sept 1, will we still be able to say "bacon" elsewhere on CP?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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