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Alan "AJ"

Weird Workplace Stories 10: The Version Control Nightmare

A real-life tale of software chaos in the 1980s, with floppy disks, BASIC programming, and version control that involved guessing which disk contained the latest files.

#1980s #programming #coding #basic #appleii #commodore64 #versioncontrol #softwaredevelopment #truestory #funny

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Soul to Scribe · Weird Workplace Stories 10: The Version Control NightmareBy Alan "AJ"
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Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄

Some of My History of Hypertext

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So in 1979, young Digital Mark is shown a computer, a TRS-80 Model I, by 4th-grade teacher. Other kids play Snake, I hit break and type LIST, seeing BASIC code, because I've been reading the instruction card. "I can read and learn this!" Nothing else now matters to Mark.

That summer, I take an

Mark writes · Some of My History of Hypertext - Mark writes
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🔥In a valiant attempt to rocket us back to the dino-days of #computing, some wizard decided to resurrect #BASIC programs with the enthusiasm of a history teacher on Red Bull. 🤓 Turns out, typing in code from 1973 is still as riveting as watching paint dry, but hey, at least you'll learn how to program your VCR! 📼
github.com/maurymarkowitz/101- #Revival #Retro #Programming #Nostalgia #VCR #HackerNews #ngated

Type-in programs from the original 101 BASIC Computer Games, in their original DEC and Dartmouth dialects. No, this is *not* the same as BASIC Computer Games. - maurymarkowitz/101-BASIC-Computer-Games
GitHubGitHub - maurymarkowitz/101-BASIC-Computer-Games: Type-in programs from the original 101 BASIC Computer Games, in their original DEC and Dartmouth dialects. No, this is *not* the same as BASIC Computer Games.Type-in programs from the original 101 BASIC Computer Games, in their original DEC and Dartmouth dialects. No, this is *not* the same as BASIC Computer Games. - maurymarkowitz/101-BASIC-Computer-Games
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Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄

Looking at the 10-liners that were entered, I am more convinced that

A) FastBasic is too modern , it's just an assembly loader. UGBasic seems OK?

B) I should be able to get my Atari PM sprite demo whipped into a game next year, it just takes some creative rewriting.

C) If nothing else, go back to my char graphics games, which are cheap but can be fun.

D) Snail Race may be the best game ever on C-64. Barcode Battle may be the best game ever on Spectrum.

#retrocomputing#basic#atari
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Stewart Russell

We spent the downtime at VCF East trying to get the COMX-35 to completely* fill the screen with randomly-placed asterisks. This was somewhat hampered by us having no COMX BASIC manual. We thought it couldn't be done ...

Thanks to the amazing Emma 02 emulator, it turns out it's possible and we were doing it wrong. We had no manual, though

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*: except for the last char position, for $reasons

A screen shot from an emulated COMX-35 computer, showing 40 columns and 24 rows of cyan asterisks on a black background. The very last position at the bottom right is not filled, as COMX BASIC scrolls the screen if a character is printed in that position
A screenshot from an emulated COMX-35 home computer showing a short BASIC listing in magenta text on a black background. The program is: 10 DEFINT I: CPOS (0,0): CLS 20 LET I=RND(959) 30 CPOS (I/40,MOD(I,40)): PRINT "*"; 40 GOTO 20 50 END
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