Oldies but goodies

[Ofnuts]

Mundane to this discussion I think

http://xkcd.org/1755/

[ichabod801]

When I was a kid, we had to program our code in ROT13. Both ways!

[Larz60+]

In reference to xkcd.org
Not to old oldie - my first program was coded with wires


1968 IBM tabulator.

This shows how the program was loaded:

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Actually I lied. This wasn't my first program. I had a couple of years prior to that in where i worked in computer engineering,
and wrote some diagnostics in Easycoder assembly language on a real computer (Honeywell 1000) for testing one of the first
disk drum drives (at the department that I worked in)

[ichabod801]

I remember the first game I wrote, where I came up with the game and the program myself. It was Star Traders. You had a limited number of planets you could get to from each planet. Each planet had different prices for commodities, which randomly went up or down each turn. You'd fly from planet to planet trying to buy low/sell high. Every now and then a pirate would randomly attack.

[Larz60+]

First game I played was 'Advent' on a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-10.
Might have been the first real computer game ever. around 1976

It slowed down the design of some of the first multi-channel plasma spectroscopy
instrumentation.

This game was the origin of the phrase 'You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike'

was in all caps:

'YOU ARE STANDING AT THE END OF A ROAD BEFORE A SMALL BRICK BUILDING.
AROUND YOU IS A FOREST.  A SMALL STREAM FLOWS OUT OF THE BUILDING AND
DOWN A GULLY'

[ichabod801]

Oh, yeah, that game was a classic. I played a later version of it, Adventure 550. You can get that on Linux, you know. It's part of bsdgames.

[Larz60+]

I still remember one of the secret tunnel passcodes was phluge