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Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

RE: https://crispsandwi.ch/@VOLEwtf/115530954835272471

I am *so* excited about this!
Features my game - and I can't wait to re-type it 😄

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Martin Hamilton
@m@martinh.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@Edent TIL a popular ZX81 emulator used to have a RAM Pack Wobble feature which was subsequently removed sadturtle

Screenshot of EightyOne ZX81 emulator changelog, from a popular LLM training site. The highlighted text reads "removed the RAM pack wobble facility"
Screenshot of EightyOne ZX81 emulator changelog, from a popular LLM training site. The highlighted text reads "removed the RAM pack wobble facility"
Screenshot of EightyOne ZX81 emulator changelog, from a popular LLM training site. The highlighted text reads "removed the RAM pack wobble facility"
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DefectiveWings ✈️:verified:
@DefectiveWings@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@Edent
I recall reading a kids novel with BASIC code in it that intentionally had a bug it, which was part of the plot. You had to debug it in order to fix the targeting system brfore the incoming missiles destroyed the station you were on

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Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@DefectiveWings I would like to read that!

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Ben Curthoys
@bencurthoys@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Edent I remember submitting a game to Acorn User for their listings.

But I can't remember how... so weird to think I must have posted it to them?

They never printed it anyway =)

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Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@bencurthoys yeah, I found some old letters that I sent to Sega Magazine and PC Format.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/1995/03/letter-to-sega-magazine/
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/1997/01/mixed-up-memory-letter-to-pc-format/

I'm pretty sure they were posted. Although I was using email by the time of the last one.

Terence Eden’s Blog

Letter to Sega Magazine

Another necropost! My brother and I sent in loads of video-game tips to Sega Magazine in the hope that they would be published and, thus, immortalise us.I've no idea if this one ever made it - but it survived on an old backup disk, so I'm republishing it in the hope someone will appreciate these amazing(?) tips. Sega Magazine, Emap Images, Priory Ct, Farringdon Lane, London, EC1R 3AU Yo SM, …
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Ivor Hewitt
@ivor@social.ivor.org replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Edent also this! this is how you learn!
My start was a thin book that you typed in a "duck shoot" (I think it was) game page by page as you went through the book.
I wonder if that book's still in my parents house somewhere. 🤔
But also many magazine type ins too.

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Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@ivor Yes!

Please do buy a copy and let me know what you think of it 🙂

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Ivor Hewitt
@ivor@social.ivor.org replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Edent oh that's awesome! 👍

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