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just when I thought it was going to be an decent educational video....

PORN PORN PORN

woooo peter mansbridge.

yay! Avenue Q - Internet is for Porn!

Scary part is that I was first using the Internet in my parents home in '93 :blink:

I think I was paying something like $25 a month for 1200 baud access...

God, now I feel old :ph34r:

Where's my pr0n? :P

NefCanuck

you feel old?

I was BBSing in '91, where free porn was always available in high res 320x240 resolution...

then fingering and gophering (no, not that gophering) in '92.. then mosaic came out...life was good!

darkpuppet,Dec 13 2006, 10:50 AM Wrote:you feel old?

I was BBSing in '91, where free porn was always available in high res 320x240 resolution... 

then fingering and gophering (no, not that gophering) in '92.. then mosaic came out...life was good!
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Hey I started in school with the Commodore PET and cassette tapes when I was eight years old :P (I still have the POKE command in my head that would cause the PET to fail utterly, learned it and never used it....

...that anyone can prove) :ph34r:

NefCanuck

NefCanuck,Dec 13 2006, 08:26 PM Wrote:

darkpuppet,Dec 13 2006, 10:50 AM Wrote:you feel old?

I was BBSing in '91, where free porn was always available in high res 320x240 resolution... 

then fingering and gophering (no, not that gophering) in '92.. then mosaic came out...life was good!
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Hey I started in school with the Commodore PET and cassette tapes when I was eight years old :P (I still have the POKE command in my head that would cause the PET to fail utterly, learned it and never used it....

...that anyone can prove) :ph34r:

NefCanuck
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bonus points if you can tell me what POKE 53280,0 and POKE 53281,0 did on the C64..

if it weren't for the old commodores, I wouldn't be able to tell you off the top of my head that C000 in hex = 49152 in decimal

I didn't have a functioning memory back when people were using POKE on C64s. I think I played some simple games on one though. POKE was used for memory registers or something wasn't it? would those be cheat codes in a game?

First game I really remember playing and actually doing productive things in was Space Quest 1. "Get card" "put on suit" "look at man"

I really wish they'd have continued that series, I played 'em all.

Anyway, back to the internet. I remember in grade 7 using the internet, and only the internet for research on my Science project on Tornadoes. The teacher failed me, as the internet was not a viable resource for a school project. That would have been 10 years ago. I'd been using it a few years before that. And before that I 'helped' my Dad BBS and stuff. But really I just did as he told me.

So that's as far back as my interneting goes.

darkpuppet,Dec 13 2006, 11:10 PM Wrote:bonus points if you can tell me what POKE 53280,0 and POKE 53281,0 did on the C64..

if it weren't for the old commodores, I wouldn't be able to tell you off the top of my head that C000 in hex = 49152 in decimal
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btw... turned the border black... god i feel old. :(

I used to mess around with C64s, but most of my "heyday" was BBSing, RPG via BBS and then the Internet around 94 or so.

I still remember when there were plenty of IP addresses available for IPv4. I've been a tech head for wayyyyy too long.

remember when text based black jack on the internet was the shizit.


anyone remember the text game, Barney splat, where you came up with different ways of getting barney so stoned he killed everyone.

SliverSteeda,Dec 14 2006, 03:32 PM Wrote:

darkpuppet,Dec 13 2006, 11:10 PM Wrote:bonus points if you can tell me what POKE 53280,0 and POKE 53281,0 did on the C64..

if it weren't for the old commodores, I wouldn't be able to tell you off the top of my head that C000 in hex = 49152 in decimal
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btw... turned the border black... god i feel old. :(
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53281 turned the border black.. 53280 turned the screen colour black. Then you could commodore-key 1 to change the cursor to white.

(btw.. poke to 'poke' values into memory, peek to 'peek' at values in memory).

While we're on the nerd reminiscing... we got our Vic-20 when i was 4 or 5 years old (I remember going to the stereo shop to pick up the computer, and then to mcdonald's for food, going home and playing space invaders).

a year later, our parents bought a 4Kb memory expansion that allowed you to draw and fill circles and squares on the screen via basic.

a year or so later, my uncle gave us his old commodore 64, and I wrote my first program using mainly print graphics and some simple logic pulled from the reference manual.

I never really looked back.

my dad got a toshiba laptop for work when I was in my early teens.. had me help install and setup Ashton Tate's dbase on it. That was my first experience with databases.... using such commands as "USE and REPLACE" (SQL's SELECT and UPDATE's precursors).

started working at computer stores building/fixing machines at 14.. tho not particularily successful as not too many adults would take the advice of a 14yr old (REMEMBER ME SASKATCHEWAN WHEAT POOL?! YOU SHOULD HAVE LISTENED, BUT YOU DIDN'T!!! )

*ahem*..

I'm back now..

we got our first c64 when i was 10... remember those Game code books. where you had to spend hours entering the code, line by line, in order to play a text game or at best a a game like wizards of war... oh god... i need a beer.

SliverSteeda,Dec 14 2006, 04:44 PM Wrote:we got our first c64 when i was 10... remember those Game code books. where you had to spend hours  entering the code, line by line, in order  to play a text game or at best a a game like wizards of war... oh god... i need a beer.
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Compute! and Compute's Gazette I believe.

Basic, MXL and MXLII. Nothing was more annoying than spending a week typing in a game and then having a number transpose in a big DATA block or MXL...

oh god now i really do need a beer... i'm haveing Pre-"flash" flash backs.. :D

darkpuppet,Dec 14 2006, 03:49 PM Wrote:

SliverSteeda,Dec 14 2006, 04:44 PM Wrote:we got our first c64 when i was 10... remember those Game code books. where you had to spend hours  entering the code, line by line, in order  to play a text game or at best a a game like wizards of war... oh god... i need a beer.
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Compute! and Compute's Gazette I believe.

Basic, MXL and MXLII. Nothing was more annoying than spending a week typing in a game and then having a number transpose in a big DATA block or MXL...
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Oh hell, been there, did that. One program for IBM BASIC from Compute! took me something like a total of 24hours to type in... only to find out that it wouldn't work on the version of BASIC on the IBM PC clone I had at the time :angry:

If nothing else at least the Windows OS minimized nightmare scenarios like that :P

NefCanuck

NefCanuck,Dec 14 2006, 10:26 PM Wrote:Oh hell, been there, did that.  One program for IBM BASIC from Compute! took me something like a total of 24hours to type in... only to find out that it wouldn't work on the version of BASIC on the IBM PC clone I had at the time :angry:

If nothing else at least the Windows OS minimized nightmare scenarios like that :P

NefCanuck
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Yeah... like Mystery at Marple Manor. I did the vic20 version, and it rocked. And tried 3 times on the c64, but there was a bug in there that I just couldn't track down (being 8-10 years old and all).

I remember the 1st sprite switching game... Eagles and Gators. 16 sprites on the screen at ONE TIME?!!! wow..

darkpuppet,Dec 15 2006, 09:52 AM Wrote:Yeah... like Mystery at Marple Manor.  I did the vic20 version, and it rocked.  And tried 3 times on the c64, but there was a bug in there that I just couldn't track down (being 8-10 years old and all).

I remember the 1st sprite switching game... Eagles and Gators.  16 sprites on the screen at ONE TIME?!!!  wow..
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Heh, I remember when the best game I could find at the time on the PC was Rogue... 52 levels of hack & slash fun, 26 going down and 26 coming back up after you found the treasure (Well, ASCII characters anyways)

Never finished that actually, always ended up getting killed by about level 20 or so on the way down, nvm going back up...

NefCanuck

or how about Impossible Mission?! kill him my robots!

or HERO II

man, I remember the graphics looking so sweet on Rambo.. when people died, they fell into the ground, it was pretty amazing the graphics.

The only problem is that with all of the pirated games we had, I had no idea how to finish half the game.

like what do you do in Predator when the time bomby thingy starts counting down? I don't see a mudpuddle to run to...