Anybody Still Play?

Mclaneinc · January 17, 2021

zzip · January 18, 2021

10 hours ago, Gunstar said:

I remember that one! I never bothered, seemed a waste of time, but I remember people sending in complaint mail about publishing a program that would destroy your computer and the editor's editorial assuring people it wouldn't really damage your Atari! LOL! Gullible people...was that in an April edition of Antic? (April fools)

I do remember the article being pretty deadpan about it though, I don't think they let people off the hook with an April Fools at the end (I could be wrong). It was Analog Magazine. 1987ish (give or take a year)

The main reason I didn't fall for it was that I believed it to be impossible to damage your computer through code. Now I know that's not always the case, but I don't think you can hurt an Atari with code, unless you wipe a disk or something

5 hours ago, Gunstar said:

Maybe I'll have to type it in or find the magazine disk ATR it was on. As I said, I never tried it, at the time I just felt it was a waste of time to spend typing in a program that just makes it look like it's destroying the Atari.

I think I downloaded a copy from a BBS, there's no way I could have typed in all that machine code without making an error or 30. If you can't find it, I can post a copy.

EDIT: Somebody beat me to posting

6 hours ago, StickJock said:

I thought that Paperweight was a great demo! The "static" (remember static?) was really realistic! The little "glitches" on the screen, with the accompanying glitchy sound..., it was all really well done.

I was in awe of how realistic the static was, it even survived a reset!

Edited January 18, 2021 by zzip

+therealbountybob · January 19, 2021

Yes I'm a big fan of BASIC games, and HSC regulars will know I'm always sneaking them in as a bonus, did run a "Best of Basic" round once too. If anyone does create anything homebrew we will play it, just let me know ;-)