Sunday, January 27, 2008
 
Sunday Night Apple Reminiscing
As a public service, I present to you the Apple II Video Display Worksheet for Graphics (GR) Mode:

Apple II Video Display Worksheet for Graphics (GR) Mode
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That should help make your design work go a little smoothly. Press your face against the screen. Can't you just smell the mimeograph ink?

Additionally, I post for your amusement, the beginning of the source code for a game entitled Spies. No non-disclosure agreement required!
Spies, page 1
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It's not that we had to write the code by hand and put it through an optical scanner, you damn kids, it's that we in middle school only got access to a computer during seventh hour but spent much of the other six handwriting the code because it was so exciting.

And just so you know, the schools had the Apples, but my first computer was a Commodore, so that's where I turned off the path of geekanati and into the real world.


- posted by Brian J. @ 10:28 PM
Comments:
Wow, that takes a girl back.

Did every kid have a software company name back then? We were "Attack Rabbit Productions".
# posted by Blogger Tam : Monday, January 28, 2008 1:00:00 PM
 


Please note that I had a logo too, although it never made it off of the paper and onto the screen.
# posted by Blogger Brian J. : Monday, January 28, 2008 1:07:00 PM
 


That is all kinds of awesome.
# posted by Blogger michele : Monday, January 28, 2008 6:46:00 PM
 


Let this be a lesson, fellows; being a pack rat will impress the women about 20 years after the hoarding.
# posted by Blogger Brian J. : Monday, January 28, 2008 7:14:00 PM
 


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