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ivo-ivic said:
It wasn't 30-minute loads, at least for most games, and pirated versions were only a few minutes at most, but if they were recorded at different tape head positions, you needed to use a screwdriver to find the right "signal". I'm talking about C-64 here, obviously.
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I was mainly talking about some friends' ZX Spectrum. Some of the games were terrible and when they finished loading they did nothing, and you had to load it again (originals). The entire game did not fit in memory and you had to load each level.

They got them cassettes mainly from magazines and copied them for everyone😊😊😊. I had the MSX with a cassette player connected by headphone cable, but almost no games, and no cartridge games, too expensive for a little kid :(. The MSX was not successful here. ☹️
 
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panto-esp said:
I was mainly talking about some friends' ZX Spectrum. Some of the games were terrible and when they finished loading they did nothing, and you had to load it again (originals). The entire game did not fit in memory and you had to load each level.

They got them cassettes mainly from magazines and copied them for everyone😊😊😊. I had the MSX with a cassette player connected by headphone cable, but almost no games, and no cartridge games, too expensive for a little kid :(. The MSX was not successful here. ☹️
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Yeah, MSX wasn't that successful outside Japan. Back then, it was harder to get games and software. If you didn't have some of the most popular systems (ZX Spectrum, C-64/128, Atari ST, Amstrad 464, Amiga 500/600...), you could only play around with programming in BASIC.
 
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whatnitrus said:
Damn shame using your brain and all when you could just play video games :LOL:

I didn't actually touch basic till much later than this, around the SNES era.
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BASIC was always more like a game than a programming language. Serious programmers shunned it. I'm talking about the 8-bit era, though, not Visual Basic, which came later.
 
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ivo-ivic said:
BASIC was always more like a game than a programming language. Serious programmers shunned it. I'm talking about the 8-bit era, though, not Visual Basic, which came later.
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Visual Basic, in its early stages, like version 4-6 were actually good...but if you knew or once you learn C you realize it was holding your hand, theres nothing wrong with using it--I still do sometimes for menial chores that would just be annoying in C, but now I understand the information i'm passing back and forth and shit. Once VB (and C#) went encapsulated around version 10 (8 was a joke of a nightmare), those languages became toys themselves. I refuse to even relearn them as easy as it would be even for convenience, its learning a whole new language to reach the exact same code in C while being lazy...why they ever changed it is beyond me.

The worst thing ever though is trying to go back and forth between the two languages (i'm sure python will be the similar but not as bad), they are almost exact opposites in every sense.
C: 
On Error Resume Next
Dim str as String
str = "Visual Basic 6" ' comment

char *s = _aligned_malloc(16, 512);
if (errno == ENOMEM) return;
s = "C or C++\0"; // comment
if (s != NULL) _aligned_free(s);

s = 'Absolutely Non-Strict Python'
s = PyClass()
if s == "Absolutely Non-Strict Python":
    return 'nop' # actually added a semicolon C style here
from toomanylibs import somename
# comment, yep thats it 😅
I tried to add assembler with byte code but even my head started spinning...only the insane use pure assembler to write ascii these days lol

Point being the same difference with basic, actually if anything it was more on the level with other languages in terms of ability but was just insulting to those who knew what was going on lower level...and it came after them so it being backwards and still new didnt help.
 
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panto-esp said:
I was mainly talking about some friends' ZX Spectrum. Some of the games were terrible and when they finished loading they did nothing, and you had to load it again (originals). The entire game did not fit in memory and you had to load each level.

They got them cassettes mainly from magazines and copied them for everyone😊😊😊. I had the MSX with a cassette player connected by headphone cable, but almost no games, and no cartridge games, too expensive for a little kid :(. The MSX was not successful here. ☹️
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There were no such computers in my environment, mostly we could afford pirated Taiwanese NES clones, rich kids had Sega and one or two cartridges for it, at school in computer science class there were several very old and very scary computers, which showed either MS DOS or some strange game about programming kangaroos, but there was one guy in our school who said that he had a computer, it had to be connected to a TV, not a monitor (we only saw monitors at school and they were very scary and did not look like a TV), and the games there were on compact cassettes. But we all knew that games were sold on yellow cartridges, less often black, and on cassettes at best Ace of Base was recorded, so that guy was considered an fool. God, how wrong we were.
 
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ivo-ivic said:
My desktop is neatly organized in rows and columns. This looks like a nightmare to me.
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Mine usually is too...it IS a nightmare, its all code files removed during distribution and odd downloads someone sent me using the same filename ten times so I didnt overwrite things :whistle: (i'm not used to working with other people lmao)

The only desktops that look this way are my ren'py one and the one I used for the court case due to rushing around...my gaming desktop even has folders for all the links each launcher makes an shit...this is complete chaos 😅
 
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whatnitrus said:
Mine usually is too...it IS a nightmare, its all code files removed during distribution and odd downloads someone sent me using the same filename ten times so I didnt overwrite things :whistle: (i'm not used to working with other people lmao)

The only desktops that look this way are my ren'py one and the one I used for the court case due to rushing around...my gaming desktop even has folders for all the links each launcher makes an shit...this is complete chaos 😅
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So, are you trying to say you have one too many "New Folder"?:whistle:
 
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