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Our Ginger Fuhrer says that he could still code up a simple game idea in Amstrad Basic, while I'm your man if you ever need to rebuild the suspension on an Austin Allegro (1750 Equipe version). This stuff doesn't leave your mind - tell us about obsolete talents you still have.

(I helped save b3ta! Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 17:04)
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Magazines with game tapes, pfft
I remember being a real man and programming your own games from BASIC, spending three days copying code from the magazine onto your VIC20 / C64 and then crying because it never, ever worked.

Good days.
(mr-lizard Hell's teeth man!, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 14:59, 13 replies)
I bet you remember
some of the addresses to peek and poke.

Some numbers never leave your brain. I wish I could clear them out to remember useful stuff!
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 15:10, closed)
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open 5,4
cmd 5

Sends to printer.
(username failed moderation, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 15:24, closed)
Like the instructions for Meccano
They were deliberately wrong so you had to learn the language and find out what the problems were.
(TitanLX, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 15:20, closed)
Fischer-Technik
I started learning bits of German trying to figure out these buggers. "Makabren"
(Divaesque, Sat 2 Jul 2011, 16:24, closed)
Yeah sorry about that.
I used to write in every month with games that I knew wouldn't work.
:D
(I helped save b3ta! stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Fri 1 Jul 2011, 15:27, closed)
So you're to blame then Stu
I demand a refund. I want my £1.25 back.
(mr-lizard Hell's teeth man!, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 15:37, closed)
I spent it on bangers.

(I helped save b3ta! stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Fri 1 Jul 2011, 15:46, closed)
Wow
breast implants were cheap in those days!
(I helped save b3ta! 100% Cock Raw like carrots., Fri 1 Jul 2011, 15:52, closed)
Yup.
*Jiggles moobs*
(I helped save b3ta! stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Fri 1 Jul 2011, 16:15, closed)
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I used to get my dad to read these out for me, so i could type them in slightly faster.

450 if inkey$="w" then goto 1050

Poor man.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% Cock Raw like carrots., Fri 1 Jul 2011, 15:36, closed)
TBH
it was even more depressing if they did work because they were invariably shit

I have issue 1 of Computer & Video Games
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 16:02, closed)
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I am actually quite impressed by that.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% Cock Raw like carrots., Fri 1 Jul 2011, 16:04, closed)
Eeeehh
I remember spending fucking hours copying the code for a golf game into a Dragon 32 and my girlfriend unplugging it from the mains to plug her hairdryer in. I wasn't happy.
(I helped save b3ta! His Popiness the Hole Invaded Poland on, Sun 3 Jul 2011, 20:02, closed)

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