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For me, all this ... computer life stuff ... started with an Acorn Electron around 40 years ago. At first it was just fun, and then I played Elite and it feels
by jefc1111 2y ago
For me, all this ... computer life stuff ... started with an Acorn Electron around 40 years ago. At first it was just fun, and then I played Elite and it feels like a lot of my future was defined in that experience.
- simonjgreen 2y agoDitto. Electron and Elite with a voltmace joystick that (memory may be hazy) had like 20 buttons on it was mind blowing to child me.
- aardvark179 2y agoThat’s how I started as well. Much nicer to program than the spectrum, and taught me about parsing in the worst way when I discovered my text adventure couldn’t have a variable called torch because it was. Parsed as to rch.
- LoganDark 2y ago> and taught me about parsing in the worst way when I discovered my text adventure couldn’t have a variable called torch because it was. Parsed as to rch. "to rch" reminds me of the "x goes to 0" meme: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642028/what-is-the-operator-in-c-c https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642028/what-is-the-oper...
- tolien 2y agoSame, and now I'm still playing Elite but just with slightly better graphics :-D