RE: (kudra: spaghetti) RE: What was your first program?

[Blue]

Ouch, my first were also spaghetti code, though I didn't get to adventure games until later.

I first programmed on a Commodore Pet, followed by the Vic-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Amiga 500, etc. Well, on the early ones, they tokenized the Basic so it fit better in the ~2.5K of RAM it had. But you could also enter it in a "shortened" format, using the first two letters, one shifted. And print was just a ?. Lines could be up to 255 characters long, but the editor would only handly up to 4 screen lines, which was either 22 chars or 40 chars, depending on which box. So I would write lines so full that when they were expanded, they were over 4 lines and I could not go back and edit them. All in the quest to save a few bytes of memory for line numbers, because 2.5K jsut is not a lot.

My first programs were games, something that always facinated me about computers. Now my efforts are a more directed, but a goal if I ever hit the lottery is to quit where I work and find a game company and "apprentice" to them. I am especially interested in trying to make computer players for games that feel like people.

=Blue
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