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reminder: in the late 1980s, it was possible to get VC investment to start a Mac software company by 1995-6 you couldn’t even get VC to start a software company (which is why getting funding to build an app was the least realistic part of Microserfs)
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eschaton posted:HyperCard ruled except for only supporting 512×342 black & white for way too long and for not having any way to make real Mac apps
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Oh hell yes. Now we are talking my language. loving around in computer lab and making dumb hypercard games was absolutely the peak of my childhood Best actual hypercard game: Uncle Fudd's Treasure https://archive.org/details/hypercard_uncle-fudds-treasure Best example of random bullshit made by a kid that represents what was available on the AOL shareware list at the time: Da Game https://archive.org/details/hypercard_da-game
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drat, is this how yosgoons got into coding? I totally missed the loving boat there. we did computer lab stuff but it was all quotient quest and print shop poo poo.
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President Beep posted:drat, is this how yosgoons got into coding? I totally missed the loving boat there. we did computer lab stuff but it was all quotient quest and print shop poo poo. Ti83 BASIC programming for me
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self-taught: C64 basic -> HyperCard -> TI-82 -> perl after that, whatever was used at school & work
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President Beep posted:drat, is this how yosgoons got into coding? I totally missed the loving boat there. we did computer lab stuff but it was all quotient quest and print shop poo poo. qbasic mostly messing with it at home on win 3.1 making games. if we had a mac I probably would have loved hypercard because before qb i would draw out elaborate game screens for ideas for games in paint. my dad bought a bog box of cheap diskettes because all the bmps were filling the hdd lol i think i saved those all off as pngs a decade ago and with compression the whole box fits on a few diskettes
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ADINSX posted:Ti83 BASIC programming for me hello friend
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we would write dumb little porno 'movies' on ti82's. i used the matrix storage for sprite memory. lmao
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There were books in the library that were printouts of programs (games even) that I borrowed and inputted into the BASIC interpreter.
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oh god the apple // magazines did that but they ALSO had machine code programs printed out. i never ever ever once got one to run.
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I took out a comal80 book from the library but none of the programs worked on my c64 ![]()
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my ti80 story is I had a friend who memorized a quick program that faked a calculator but gave wrong results by a small fraction. it respected things that would mess an eye check like multiplying numbers ending in 5 end in 5 or 0, even vs odd stuff, etc. If during a class you were not paying attention, he’d swap your calculator with one he put the program in, and then gently caress up all your calculations
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lmao that's devious
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Jonny 290 posted:oh god the apple // magazines did that but they ALSO had machine code programs printed out. pages of mlx in the back of compute! gazette. that one at least would checksum each line so it was harder to mess up.
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Carthag Tuek posted:self-taught: mirc scripting and whatever i could wring out of hl/quake binds in tfc
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Progressive JPEG posted:mirc scripting oh yeah, i did a bunch of scripting at one point, too. most of it was, looking back, rudimentary but it was a good experience in learning how to read other peoples' code and understand and modify it for other uses
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it was qbasic on the family pc for me as well.
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i hosed around with first ti-basic on a ti99-4a. then qbasic. then visual basic. then calculator ti-basic. then perl. see? basic is a gateway language kids. just say no to computers.
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Jonny 290 posted:that requires a head-end, and as far as i can tell, there's just no bandwidth in the region. nobody's run fiber to any county central offices b/c they're not spending 79 million bucks to sell broadband to 1000 yokels Jonny. Please. Come on. Be the change you want to see in the world. Create a localized wifi meshnet that can hop you over to the charter hardline. Collectivize internet access in a remote rural area. You were born to do this.
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Jonny 290 posted:that requires a head-end, and as far as i can tell, there's just no bandwidth in the region. nobody's run fiber to any county central offices b/c they're not spending 79 million bucks to sell broadband to 1000 yokels so, the fcc has by-census-tract search for the various rural internet programs and it looks like the iron mountain-proximate county has a ftth buildout funded. one of the other programs has a fixed-wireless subsidized lte option for some rural internet areas they also gave spacex some cash lol
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eschaton posted:reminder: in the late 1980s, it was possible to get VC investment to start a Mac software company michael sells oop for two billion dollars to microsoft and retires to la to be a nazi full time on social media
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my start was basic on the c64 in the 80s but my first real development time sink was "klik and play", this weird engine i never hear anything about these days, it was made to be drag and drop, and it was, but you could script any element, too. i think i found it in a bargain bin around 1995. https://youtu.be/GYvoBc1qW8Y
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i stayed after school in 3rd grade so i could program a logo script that animated AC / DC onto the screen, in colors. then did hypercard games through middle school didn't touch programming again until grad school, and now app sales pay my bills
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I started on Turbo Pascal. I also never progressed much beyond turbo pascal I’ve built a few arduino projects tho so I can hella copy code from GitHub and stack exchange.
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I have seen just this week a file loader for a billion dollar process written in VBA and submitted to auditors as evidence of...idk what to be honest but if it was me I'd fail it on general principles
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started with visual c# express 2005 in middle school that was around the time i first tried linux as well, ubuntu 5.10
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I have seen just this week a file loader for a billion dollar process written in VBA and submitted to auditors as evidence of...idk what to be honest but if it was me I'd fail it on general principles Are you auditing shaggar
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we use SSIS so technically there may be some vba in there somewhere, but it would have been written by MS
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c64, typing programs out of run magazine there are all sorts of hardly used features in c64 basic which are interesting to think about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBV_ASCLF4w
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Apple LOGO on the Apple II+
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PCjr sidecar posted:michael sells oop for two billion dollars to microsoft and retires to la to be a nazi full time on social media that was selling a software company, not getting VC to start a software company I guess AgileBits (1Password) took investment to expand more quickly? but they were already expanding so that’s really investment in a going concern
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eschaton posted:that was selling a software company, not getting VC to start a software company it was a notch/minecraft joke, sorry
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eschaton posted:Apple LOGO on the Apple II+ this too
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eschaton posted:Apple LOGO on the Apple II+ Extremely good memories from this one
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the coolest thing my parents ever did was send me to 2 weeks of computer nerd camp at a milwaukee community college and they let us play with logo all day
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logo was the absolute poo poo. I remember getting told to just go do some logo stuff with another kid at school because we'd basically finished the work for that term iirc we named all our drawing like draw, draw1, draw2, draw1-2 etc. Setting up for a fine career in shameful programming
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:logo was the absolute poo poo. I remember getting told to just go do some logo stuff with another kid at school because we'd basically finished the work for that term look at jon richardson here, too anal to use the Standard Naming Scheme (i.e. asd, asdfa, asfasfsfa, asasfsfsds, etc.)
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3D Megadoodoo posted:look at jon richardson here, too anal to use the Standard Naming Scheme (i.e. asd, asdfa, asfasfsfa, asasfsfsds, etc.) I remember seeing Jon Richardson before he hit the big time at a weekly comedy night in a pub in Bristol called The Hatchet but he didn't mention logo at all!!!
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I remember seeing Jon Richardson before he hit the big time at a weekly comedy night in a pub in Bristol called The Hatchet but he didn't mention logo at all!!! seriouspost turtles make him anxious
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