my dad tells me about computer magazines that would have software in it. like literally just BASIC in a tiny font taking up two pages. and me said it was just a nightmare typing every single character in perfectly for an hour so that at the end you could hit the button and it would like, show a picture of a flag and play a song. he says it with this air of like "it was terrible but it was all we had"
god i would have killed for something like that
as a kid i had a vague sense that someone somewhere "wrote software" but i had no idea what that really meant. you can't tear apart a compiled binary and change things to see what happens the way you can with BASIC printed in a magazine
...not easily, anyway.
@monorail Your dad is ... actuially correct. I wanted to see if I could find some scans of BASIC programs from the old Spectrum magazines my dad used to get me but no such luck it seems.
But yeah. Honestly though hardly any of them actually were much cop. But then I never seemed to grasp the whole "you can change this program to see what it does and then learn programming that way" for some reason. ._.; even back then my brain didn't work so well I guess.
