2009/3/6 haliphax <haliphax@xxxxxxxxx> > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Stuart <stuttle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 2009/3/6 Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> > >> I just turned 35... today... that's young by the standards of a 70 year > >> old >:) > > > > Happy Birthday ya wise old git. > > I started with BBC Basic, moved on to gwbasic then to C, and the rest, as > > they say, is history. > > First program I ever wrote was a game called Spider. I created person and > > spider characters (as in patching over existing letters in the standard > > character set), put them on a playing surface and the spider tried to > catch > > the person as they moved around to pick up asterisks. Really simple but > huge > > fun. I was hooked. Still am. > > Is that sort of like Robots, where you try to rescue all the humans, > and the robots take a step towards you every time you move? That was > my first TI-BASIC program, though I wrote it admittedly just two years > ago when I should have been paying attention in Accounting II. :D Sounds similar. My Mum was afraid of spiders and being 8 years old I made something I thought would freak her out. In my recollection it did but thinking about it I'm sure she was just humouring me. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/
