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Some of the early computer magazines often contained listings of games. I remember one where you were required to type in about 1000 lines of Basic data stateme
by welshguy 12y ago
Some of the early computer magazines often contained listings of games. I remember one where you were required to type in about 1000 lines of Basic data statements, liberally sprinkled with checksums. Finally, after a couple of days typing, I typed 'Run' and hit the enter key expectantly. The screen cleared, and two big red words appeared: "April Fool".
- dodders 12y agoWas that the Spectrum magazine article that claimed the Spectrum was actually a Spectrum Plus under the hood, and all that was required was to poke in the printed page of machine code - in hex, mind you - to unleash it's glorious abilities. A couple of hours of typing later, and the big red 'April Fools' message appears...