Scuderia said:

A little off topic?maybe not actually as its still gaming........do you remember when the Amstrad CPC 464 and spectrum were about you could program your own games in ,you would have got them in magazines, once done you could copy and save them to tape to play them as and when you wished,silly question, but can you still do the like of this was a modern day pc?,if so,how?,remembering iam no Bill Gates,i ask as i see the net is full of these 80's programs,

Cheers Don

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Ryanfaescotland said:

Haha yeah you can still do this, it's pretty much my job! Well, sadly it's not games I program but it is programming none the less. It's even easier than it used to be as well since you no longer need to program in BASIC but now have lots of nice high-level languages you can use. There is a bit of a learning curve but there is plenty of out there and once you get the fundamental stuff you're pretty much set.

Some good books and sites :

http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg/ - Killer Game Programming, good book.

http://www.cokeandcode.com/info/tut2d.html - Space Invaders 101, all online

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/getStarted/index.html - The guide to getting started with Java, the programming language I mainly use.

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Martyn said:

Well got the dreamcast....get the feeling it lived with a smoker tho

Still, ripped the controller and console apart to give 'em a quick bath!

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Donald said:

Sorry to resurrect this.

I've got heaps of old consoles still and sometimes dig them out for a shotty. Have my original sega master system 2, sega mega drive 2, sega dreamcast playstation 1, xbox and n64. Had a commodore 64 before my master system but all the keys buggered so was got rid of. Bought another on ebay a while ago and still have it kicking about, Also bought a snes but never really had anything for it other than super mario

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