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[littlespark]

I bet even you would know the basics(!) of programming. How about a little bit of 'Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code'. I reckon you could manage :-

10 Print "Hello World"
20 GOTO 10

Hello World
Hello World
Hello World
Hello World
Hello World
Hel…….


I said what I said for comic effect…. I’ve done my fair share of BASIC, Python, C, Fortran…..
I was at school when the BBC Acorns came in… with its limited colour pallete, big chunky keys on the keyboard and the original “floppy” disks.

At the end of every computing class, at least 5 of the only 12 machines in the school were displaying upside down, or mirrored screens because someone had found the code to mess about with them.


Casting my mind back, there was a game that we had on them…. Looked very much like Mario… Small moustachioed dude, brick squares, question marked blocks…. But you could draw your own level… placing the different blocks and then playing the level. It certainly wasn’t called “Mario” anything….
The background tune was an 8 bit version of the captain pugwash theme, if that helps??? (Which might have been an optional soundtrack that could be loaded in… )

 

[DPG]

Hello World
Hello World
Hello World
Hello World
Hello World
Hel…….


I said what I said for comic effect…. I’ve done my fair share of BASIC, Python, C, Fortran…..
I was at school when the BBC Acorns came in… with its limited colour pallete, big chunky keys on the keyboard and the original “floppy” disks.

At the end of every computing class, at least 5 of the only 12 machines in the school were displaying upside down, or mirrored screens because someone had found the code to mess about with them.


Casting my mind back, there was a game that we had on them…. Looked very much like Mario… Small moustachioed dude, brick squares, question marked blocks…. But you could draw your own level… placing the different blocks and then playing the level. It certainly wasn’t called “Mario” anything….
The background tune was an 8 bit version of the captain pugwash theme, if that helps??? (Which might have been an optional soundtrack that could be loaded in… )

BBC micro, how posh. I started on a Vic 20. Although we did have BBCs at school. I did get told off a couple of times for using network commands to target other machines on the ethernet network.

Is it Repton you're thinking of? That had a tool where you could make your own levels.

 

[littlespark]

BBC micro, how posh. I started on a Vic 20. Although we did have BBCs at school. I did get told off a couple of times for using network commands to target other machines on the ethernet network.

Is it Repton you're thinking of? That had a tool where you could make your own levels.

Thanks for that… I just spent last 2 hours down a rabbit hole looking for old games.

Repton…. Had a look, but that’s not it.

This memory must have been when I was about 12…. When the first bbc computers were a few years earlier…
I started to question the “Mario” character, and I’ve come up with “magic mushrooms”

I maybe got this mixed up with the original donkey kong… with the ladders…. And did include Mario.


Now I just need to find the music.

 

[Moley]

The BBC was way after my school days. I can remember when they first allowed a calculator in school. My first computer was also a Vic20. It's amazing what you could do with 3.5k of RAM

 

[Moley]

Thanks for that… I just spent last 2 hours down a rabbit hole looking for old games.

At the same time charging some poor sod a fortune for the work that you should have been doing on their house

 

[brianmoooore]

Computer I learnt on occupied a building about the size of four large terraced houses and our calculators had a cranck handle on the end that you turned.

 

[littlespark]

Calculators? Luxury, Bloody luxury!

We had little beads on a string!


Did you wrap your school jotters in wallpaper, or was that just a Scottish thing?

 

[Moley]

Computer I learnt on occupied a building about the size of four large terraced houses

It wasn't called 'Hex' was it? I wonder how many people will understand that.

 

[brianmoooore]

It wasn't called 'Hex' was it? I wonder how many people will understand that.

Ours was 'KOS'.

 

[littlespark]

It wasn't called 'Hex' was it? I wonder how many people will understand that.

Actually, I think it was called ‘Hal’

 

[DPG]

Calculators? Luxury, Bloody luxury!

We had little beads on a string!


Did you wrap your school jotters in wallpaper, or was that just a Scottish thing?

yeah we backed our exercise books as well. Never really knew why!

 

[brianmoooore]

yeah we backed our exercise books as well. Never really knew why!

Got a lot further south than Yorkshire. We had to do it in Devon as well.

 

[Moley]

And Wales. So, no one get's the 'Hex' thing?

 

[Dan]

I don't mate! must be an age thing hehe

I'm proficient in html5 and php to a point. But seo is all in English which I'm still learn for very well.

 

[Moley]

'Hex' was the computer at the 'Unseen University'. It's a Terry Pratchett thing.