The middle aged thread

Did you buy the books and magazines with code in where you programmed your own games?

Found this thread and realise I'm too old to partake.......

'...........and 'were mars bars really 10p?'

I recall them being 6d.

:-(

Nah, you can join, we're not ageist in this thread and happily would welcome even the most decrepit of the old farts.

Yep. My friend and I tried to write a game. We got stuck on the bit of code about making the character jump over the alien and I got bored and gave up but he kept going. He did grow up to be a programmer though.

Thanks kiddo.......anyone else got one of these?

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Or one of these.....?

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BBC Acorn and boulderdash.

Good times :)

I think I still have my ZX Spectrum somewhere. 48k rubber key version obviously.

Spectrum and ZX81 here. <- Boastpost.

When we got the TV with the wired remote control it was like Tomorrow's World had arrived.

BBC Micro model B with Rocket Raid. It was painful loading games from cassettes.

Then spend hours typing out the code only to find it didn't work. Then spend more hours trying to fix it without any luck, only to find in the next issue there was an apology to say the code last week was wrong. Happy daze.

In other medium age news, my mother called today to ask what see should no with all the cassettes she has just found in the loft...

We never had a wired remote tv, we went straight from big buttons to ir remote.

We did have a wired remote for the Fergusson Videostar though. We also got an extension lead so it could run round the edge of the room to my dads chair.

I was the remote in our family

Was so excited when we went from a top loading video to a front loading one.

ZX80, Jupiter Ace, Dragon 32.

Friends with a Betamax with ultrasound (not IR) remote.

chuckie egg and manic miner for me.

Did you buy the books and magazines with code in where you programmed your own games?

Oh yes.

I once nearly had one published, got the money for it, but the magazine went under before it could be printed. My best friend had quite a few published. We were world champions at typing in listings, even with machine code in DATAs.

#BASICforever

When I was a kid, if the wind was right, you got a smell wafting through the village which was part Mars bar part Spangles.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/feb/03/20-reasons-for-middle-aged-men-to-be-cheerful

10 PRINT "#BASICforever"
20 GOTO 10

what was the question again please?

Now what did I come in here for?

Can you lot keep it down in here? I'm trying to have a nap...

mark my words, there'll be competitive 'authentic' pacemaker modification threads in a few years..

you were there before it was cool!

here's you pitlock key...

Pretending to be pissed off at being bought a Remington trimmer with nose ear and eyebrow attachments whilst secretly