MAMEWorld Forums - Programming - Re: Sending modern languages back to 1980s game programmers

> > 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.

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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