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    njsg ,
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    @vampiress So the publisher now has these books available online too? That looks like a lot of fun :-)

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    linnaeus ,
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    @vampiress It didn’t quite get me over the hump to being a game designer or a coder, but I hacked the shit out of the space trading game from that book.

    BenCurranDev ,
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    @vampiress I HAD THESE! Oh I spent so much time with these books and the BBC Micros at school. They were the best!

    jmelesky ,
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    @vampiress Oh, I loved books like that! And there were so many! It almost seemed like it was impossible not to learn how to program.

    foolishowl ,
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    @vampiress That art is great.

    FunkyBob ,
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    @vampiress I loved this book!

    rfc6919 ,
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    @vampiress magic numbers from a time before design for maintainability

    thomasfuchs ,
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    @vampiress my first programming book was a badly photocopied version of “BASIC for the TRS-80” with half the pages missing or illegible and I had only a PC with GWBASIC and no graphics mode (MDA card) 😅

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    thomasfuchs ,
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    @vampiress fwiw https://archive.org/details/Getting_Started_with_TRS-80_Basic_1981_Tandy/mode/1up

    criffer ,
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    @vampiress I too learned with this book. I too have acquired a copy as a fully-grown adult nerd :D

    doidydoidy ,
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    @vampiress I had a different computer when I had some of those books too. Looking at all the different variants (I love how they marked the distinct lines with a set of symbols representing each system), and figuring out the equivalent in my computer's dialect, was I guess my first experience of "maintaining" someone else's code.

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