Harbour Master Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Hi,I manage a PC gaming website but my history was founded in Atari 8-bit gaming. I wrote a series of articles on 8-bit gaming a couple of years ago but I've just written something new on the Atari: a more personal look back at what progamming was actually like. It might bring back memories for anyone who grew up with an Atari 800 in the home. Here it is if you're interested:Learning Curve In time, we got a disk drive and no longer had to endure the disgrace and danger of storing programs on tape. I also took on the challenge of machine language, becoming astonished at how much code you needed to accomplish, like, anything. I worked on small routines in machine language and made edits to games directly on disk to give them more lives or, even better, infinite lives. Thanks all,Joel (HM) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam242 Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Looks like a good read, thanks for sharing. I am a complete nostalgia junkie... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harbour Master Posted January 18, 2014 Author Share Posted January 18, 2014 adam242 - my pleasure! I hope you do get something out of it as my regular readers who don't have an Atari history felt like they did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Adam+ Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 All those three articles are great read, I wanted to start a thread about them, but you were first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harbour Master Posted January 19, 2014 Author Share Posted January 19, 2014 +Adam+, thank you! I also did a video "eulogy" of my Atari childhood a couple of years ago. Basically, 12 minutes of Atari nostalgia featuring titles such as Alternate Reality, Mercenary, The Lurking Horror and, of course, Star Raiders. I don't provide a list of the games that appear, so you could also think of it as a challenge to name every title. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russg Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 adam242 - my pleasure! I hope you do get something out of it as my regular readers who don't have an Atari history felt like they did. Lots of fun, complete with screen captures. Best article of any kind I've read in a long time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harbour Master Posted January 21, 2014 Author Share Posted January 21, 2014 Thanks Dragonstomper. I wasn't intending to go into so much detail initially but, well, it just seemed incomplete not to! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harbour Master Posted January 26, 2014 Author Share Posted January 26, 2014 Oh God, you're not "Dragonstomper", russg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Thanks for your memories. I can somehow relate to your experience as I programmed my 800 in Assembler but despite various attempts and several languages bought/downloaded/installed on subsequent (ST/TT/PC/Mac) systems never attained the same level of programming proficiency I had on my first Atari. Blamed it on university, having a girlfriend, starting to work (non-IT) but maybe it was a bit of not wanting to learn lots of new stuff such as GUI programming and C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Oh God, you're not "Dragonstomper", russg. Those titles confused me a little at first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harbour Master Posted February 7, 2014 Author Share Posted February 7, 2014 Hey slx, those reasons like university and "having a girlfriend" - these are all valid reasons! Life is meant for living, after all. But, yeah, somehow it seems like starting again after being at the top of your game is quite the fall. It can really put you off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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