School has REALLY changed since.....

[paceman]

Wow...the copyright on that capsule was five years before I was born.

I was 8.

Well either you're not as old as I thought you were (good for you), or I'm older than I thought I was (bad for me). Crap.

I'm 49.


ARGH!!! next year is the big one...................

[Apache Warrior]

Wow...the copyright on that capsule was five years before I was born.

I was 8.

Well either you're not as old as I thought you were (good for you), or I'm older than I thought I was (bad for me). Crap.

I'm 49.


ARGH!!! next year is the big one...................

You could always sleep through it.
Apache (51 )

[BlackArrow]

Paceman, I had the same Capsule. I even remember when we simulated it crashing and poured lighter fluid on it and set it ablaze with GI Joe inside. Ah yes that brings back great memories.

[ViTO]

Paceman, I had the same Capsule. I even remember when we simulated it crashing and poured lighter fluid on it and set it ablaze with GI Joe inside. Ah yes that brings back great memories.

Not for nothing, but I do feel guilty for burning up my space shuttle as a kid..
before any shuttle accidents of course.


Brandon was a big " Ultimate Soldier " collector. For you older folks thats the modern day GI Joe, very detailed and very cool, they made all eras.

We got tons of those.

[darth_nevus]

I do remember programming in GWBasic when I was in the 8th grade (89-90) where we learned some basics. I programmed a horse racing game that allowed you to enter your own horse name, place some money, would create fictitious odds and give you payouts. The horses were simply dots on the screen but they would move in random lengths each second, thus creating a simulation of racing.

At the end, you won the money you bet. I never did figure out how to save information for a future use.

ROFL. i actually HAVE a copy of GWbasic still. i remember spending a week typing in close to 2000 lines of code from an article from a pc magizine to generate a colored fractal "Mandelbrot fern" program for my dad's 386 pc. i still have a programming manual for it somewhere as well. it was 2 inches thick, and described lord only knows what... oh, and the Green Text, even on a VGA monitor.... all time best game i had for it was Spacewars, writtin for a monochrome monitor, with 2 player capabilities! all before m$'s Quickbasic...

As far as saving information, sadly, i STILL remember how to do it. i loved making games in it, but more so, compiling them into HUGE executables at the time, and having to deal with the convential memory limitation.

wow. memory lane....

[paceman]

When I was in high school I learned basic on a TTY terminal.



It was connected via telephone to the CDC computer at FSU. It ran at 110 baud. Not K, not M. 110 baud.

On of the best game I wrote in basic was a sky diving game. At the beginning it would tell you how high you were, and then you pressed <enter> to jump. Then every second it would type a * to let you know you were falling. Then you tried to time open the parachute at the last possible second. The closer you were to the ground when your 'chute opened, without going splat, the more points you got.

[BigTwinky]

haha, I love old school programming. How games could be so basic and simple, but were so cool. lol