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Remember the old days....

4 replies · 2,631 views · Started 03 October 2002

SwitchBlade 03 Oct 2002, 11:54

No I don't mean the reign of Queen Victoria, the world wars or hippys...

I'm reffering to your wasted youth, that time you spent as a child/teen. The days where you would spend your time alone waggling your joystick, or the lucky days where you would go round your mate's house and waggle your joysticks together in a bid to out-waggle each other. The days when you could go to those special places in town and waggle someone elses joystick for a small charge, thus saving wear and tear on your own. Remember the poor kids whose joysticks would't waggle anymore? How about the time your mum caught you having a waggle and said "What the hell do you think you are doing with that?"?

Those are the fond memories I have and I still have some joysticks that no longer waggle, or refuse to fire due to their chronic overuse. Yet I keep them because of fond memories. Yes we are in the realm of 1990s computer games, when WWF Wrestlemania earnt the joystick industry a fortune. We have the perfect oppertunity, with an adaptor and driver (please someone make one) we could have games to play on the 9210, then we could waggle anywhere!!!! On the bus, on the train, in a business meeting pretending to be making notes, in a lecture at university, in the House of Commons as an MP, on an air flight. The future is waggle-tastic if want for one small invention, please an electronics guru, make adaptors for our digital joystics so we can waggle once more.....

TANKERx 03 Oct 2002, 12:29

My youth was mis-spent waiting for tapes to load on a Commodore 16 then Commodore 64 and getting my mates around so we could work together at typing in the BASIC code for from a computer magazine (taking it in turns to type and read, read and type).

What made these games really bad was the POKE statements in the BASIC code. It was ok when the magazine contained lines such as;

10 INPUT "WHAT IS YOUR NAME?", N$
20 PRINT "HELLO ",N$

The problem was when there was page after page after page containing something like;

200 POKE 64738, 10, 200, 255, 10, 10, 15, 0, 0, 16, 233, 12, 96
210 POKE 12288, 150, 120, 220, 20, 128, 102, 21, 91, 90
220 POKE 12345, 2, 8, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 6, 6, 6

Only to forget to save, try running and freeze the machine!!!!!! :evil:

You guys don't know what computing is! 😉 Waiting ten minutes to load a game from cassette only to find that the tape player was too close to the TV and it didn't load properly..... or having to wait for five minutes after each level for the next level to load only to get killed straight away and wait another five minutes to re-load the intro screen and level 1! Ooooh! Those were the days!

What we know as the Linux/Mac/BeOS is better than Windows arguments were at a lower level! We'd argue chipsets! Commodore owners would expound the virtues of SID (the sound chip) and VIC (the video chip)! Others could talk about Agnes, Fat Anges, Gary! Those were the days!