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Sending modern languages back to 1980s game programmers
#131805 - 11/21/07 09:42 AM
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Re: Sending modern languages back to 1980s game programmers
[Re: twisty]
#131839 - 11/21/07 07:52 PM
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I hate to puncture that guy's uphill-both-ways-in-the-snow story, but there were source-level debuggers for at least the NES, SNES, and Genesis (and of course everything after them). Also, he seems to have completely missed out on the fact that a lot of name-brand 80s games were running on script interpreters: the Infocom Z-Machine, Sierra's AGI and SCI, and Lucas's SCUMM.
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Re: Sending modern languages back to 1980s game programmers
[Re: twisty]
#131841 - 11/21/07 08:13 PM
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> http://prog21.dadgum.com/6.html
I remember learning BASIC (well, mostly, enough that I could look at BASIC listings in magazines and more or less understand what was happening) on my old ZX Spectrum + & +3 but Assembler just scared me! I thought about trying to learn it but didn't really put enough effort in in the end. 
I thought that some of the games on the Spectrum at least were programmed on other machines (like early PCs or Apple machines) and transferred over via an interface? I'm sure I remember reading a feature of some sort in one of the magazines of the era. 
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Re: Sending modern languages back to 1980s game programmers
[Re: tb2000]
#134586 - 12/16/07 03:41 AM
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> > http://prog21.dadgum.com/6.html
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> I remember learning BASIC (well, mostly, enough that I could look at BASIC listings
> in magazines and more or less understand what was happening) on my old ZX Spectrum +
> & +3 but Assembler just scared me! I thought about trying to learn it but didn't
> really put enough effort in in the end.
Ha! that's my story exactly, except i had the rubber keyboard model. I was typing in listings from magazines on the Speccy when I was 9 years old. Impressed the hell out of my dad's students in evening school :-) They had a bunch of Spectrums with the Interface 2, networked together and my dad taught BASIC programming there.
> I thought that some of the games on the Spectrum at least were programmed on other
> machines (like early PCs or Apple machines) and transferred over via an interface?
> I'm sure I remember reading a feature of some sort in one of the magazines of the
> era.
I remember reading a bio on the Darling brothers of Codemasters and I think they said they were doing development on a modified Amstrad CPC, using their own software. I can't find it now, shame because it was a really good read..
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Re: Sending modern languages back to 1980s game programmers
[Re: Sune]
#135931 - 12/29/07 11:30 PM
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> Ha! that's my story exactly, except i had the rubber keyboard model.
Heh.....
Me to....
A mag proggy never worked first time.....
That was the fun....
Finding the mistake/s.....
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