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# I think I must have spent
much of my early teens programming the speccy from mags oh and then there was Elite - Which pretty much dominated 1983 for me
(asciifaceofbob bob bob bob bob bob bob bob, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 14:24, archived)
# That's impressive since Elite was released in 1984
;)

I spent *ages* once typing in a machine code Frogger game from a book about teaching yourself machine code on the Speccy.

It didn't work.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 14:31, archived)
# Then it must have been 84
how frustrating, still - I bet it helped you to bug testing properly in the longer term...

I'm still surprised there are so many folks on here who are obviously over 40!
(asciifaceofbob bob bob bob bob bob bob bob, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 14:50, archived)
# Actually I was really young at the time
so it taught me to steer clear of machine code. That's stood me in very bad stead ever since because I stuck to Basic and now am fighting to dig myself out of being stuck to Fortran which is kind of like Basic for scientists.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 15:05, archived)
# Frogger clone
YES! Me, too! It was a Melbourne House book called something like "Learning Z80 Assembler", which I mostly sort-of followed... read it cover to cover during a wet two-week Easter family holiday in Suffolk, as I recall. *sigh* happy days...
(imipak, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 19:30, archived)