adam_y

adam_y, 3 miesiące temu

That’s the spirit. Give it a whirl, see if it does anything for you, and even it iflt doesn’t, it was worth it to learn it didn’t.

Vastly better than making a low effort post somewhere saying, “should I watch this film?”.

adam_y, 5 miesięcy temu

Doing anything excessively leads to that.

What you are describing is addiction in the broadest terms and really is nothing specific to video games.

adam_y, 5 miesięcy temu

That was more the zx spectrum / commodore era and even then you could still buy most things on tape. Magazines used to print code though.

At least until the cover tape wars started. Then it got crazy.

But yeah, I remember taking shifts with my pal typing lines in. One mistake and you got to learn the joys of debugging at age 7.

adam_y, 5 miesięcy temu

I think it was David Braben that used the video buffer as extra ram. Coded text on screen in the same colour blue as the sky and stored it there.