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Christian Gudrian
cgudrian@social.tchncs.de@lina
10 PRINT “HELLO”
20 GOTO 10
And Google was called “Data Becker” here in Germany back then (around 1988).
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@lina omg omg
could you add alt text to this? this is pretty funny :3
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Mattias Eriksson 🦀🚵♂️
snaggen@mastodon.nu@lina
I read computer magazines and typed 2 pages of 64 Basic (mostly peek/poke codes) in to my computer, then spending an hour finding the typos, to finally play some version of space invaders. Great times!
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arc) 
playing a video game with official mod support. reading a guide on how to make your own version of a base-game item. essentially just editing hex colour values in files copied from a specific directory.
later i started looking around in the directories around it and found code. applied the same steps to source code files that actually contain code, and editing other stuff instead of colour values and seeing what happens.
changing values, removing flow control. pressing the compile button in a program the game's devs made and reading the error messages, if any. revert changes that caused an error and testing the changes.
eventually you just know what does what. only
that was unrealscript, which isn't a useful language anymore. after that i started looking at the code for reverse engineered video game projects and tried writing c++, but found it cluttered and switched to c. reading manuals and documentation for libraries. once you know one language that has syntax similar to c, it usually isn't difficult to figure out how other ones work
later i started looking around in the directories around it and found code. applied the same steps to source code files that actually contain code, and editing other stuff instead of colour values and seeing what happens.
changing values, removing flow control. pressing the compile button in a program the game's devs made and reading the error messages, if any. revert changes that caused an error and testing the changes.
eventually you just know what does what. only
for loops had to be explained to me by someone else.that was unrealscript, which isn't a useful language anymore. after that i started looking at the code for reverse engineered video game projects and tried writing c++, but found it cluttered and switched to c. reading manuals and documentation for libraries. once you know one language that has syntax similar to c, it usually isn't difficult to figure out how other ones work
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