> -----Original Message----- > From: William Bowen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 4:12 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Why did you get into computers? (was: churvii: a study in > brainiacs) > > > I spun this off into a new thread because it got me > thinking........why did > > everyone here get into programming? Was it by choice? Did it just > happen > > that way? Did you major in CS in college? Was it to make money? > > 1981-ish TI-99/4a was my first computer. > Learned Basic
No, dude! You learned "Extended BASIC"! Much better than normal, non-extended basic! The only video game I ever wrote to completion was in Extended Basic on a TI-99/4A. You played a janitorial robot in a building. The story was that you went out every night and collected garbage. But the building people put in a new security system and forgot about you! So now you had to go along the floor and dodge the sensors by shutting down when they passed over you... but if you shut down too long you'd lose all power and couldn't power back up! So you ran along these isometric levels and hit a key when the security devices flew over. Along the way you'd empty trash cans. I made three levels (each level had four "floors" of the building). When you reached the roof you got to take the "express elevator" back to the start point and recharge. It had a little "You Won ... until tomorrow night!" sign at the end. Damn I loved that "Extended Basic" cartridge... basic sounds, sprites, "music" - even access to the speech synthesizer! So cool. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:259561 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
