Let's Type UFO from Popular Computing Weekly (1986) | The Impossible Type-In?

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  @MartinPiper6502 · 1 month ago (edited)

  I typed it in back in the day. It worked. I spent ages deciphering the graphics characters to type in by using a ruler and lining them up with other characters.

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  @Dazlidorne · 1 month ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_LTfVesRhQ&amp;t=337">5:37</a> Also remember that most of the people typing in these programs were kids that didn&apos;t even know how to type.

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  @TheSonshade · 1 month ago

  Those graphics were pretty darn good.

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• JU

  @juanoncho · 4 weeks ago

  Only nerdy freaks will understand how thrilling this video was.. I was on the edge of my sit every run statemen ha ha ha. What a cool memories. Thanks for this kind of videos.

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  @danielallan3417 · 6 days ago

  My friend you just brought some huge memories of my Pappa and me sitting for days just to play a 20 min game. Thank you soo very much mate!

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  @talideon · 1 month ago

  Impressive for something where the core logic is in BASIC!

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  @tonymason6686 · 1 month ago (edited)

  I found a printout of my old Commodore Pet game from 8th grade - 6 pages of code and enough petscii to make my eyes water just thinking about it. &nbsp;I ended up taking a photo of the printout from my phone, fed it to Claude, and damned if it didn&apos;t translate the entire thing - including the petscii - from the photo. &nbsp;Game ran, sounds and all. &nbsp;From a photo of a battered printout from 1983.

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  @rinzler9775 · 12 days ago

  We used to do this as kids - and make sure nobody turned off the computer

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  @deusprogrammer_thekingofspace · 2 weeks ago

  This sort of thing is what got me into software development as a kid in the 80’s.

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  @rakido7388 · 1 month ago

  Commodore Computing International had a hex loader for some typeins, with a checksum.

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  @Dman911011 · 2 weeks ago (edited)

  I remember typing in lots of these as a kid on my C-64 . Lots of weekend nights spent typing the endless DATA lines , and ever popular peeks and pokes. Then upgraded to C-128 , had some new lines to type then like the DRAW command. Ahhhhh good times indeed , nice video brings back memories. I&apos;m 57 now makes me super nostalgic.

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  @DasHemdchen · 1 month ago

  Can‘t overestimate how much „love“ or self-punishment you put into this. I love the effort! The first words of my new birthday/Christmas present C64 were SYNTAX ERROR.<br>That hit me hard. And from then I couldn’t stop until it obeyed my more sophisticatedly articulated commands.😅

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