Your first computer program

[MyUserName]

DataEase eh? Those panels were great were they not? lol talk about cumbersome.

Lol - fond memories, absolute torture.

After I came back from the Christmas holiday it had stopped processing any player who's number was a single digit. No one could explain why!

[Paddy]

Write (6,7)
7 format(13h hello, world)
stop
end

[darmstadt]

UK eBorders Program in COBOL VSII

[Mich the Tester]

UK eBorders Program in COBOL VSII

Ah, that's why you emigrated!

[lilelvis2000]

10 Print 'Mr ... is a dirty old man'
20 GOTO 10

I did that..in a shop which had a Vic 20 on display. ha ha

[Scrag Meister]

Don't remember the first thing I wrote but I do remember a couple of things.

1. Dr Watson Compiler on the Commodore 64, writing some sprite program with it but it was too fast to be of any use.

2. Commodore Horizons magazine from where I used to spend hours typing in small BASIC loaders with immense hex dumps that got processed and "POKEd" into memory.
Remember one time being gutted when I had spent a couple of hours typing in the hex and ran the app without saving it, it promptly crashed and rebooted, all that work down the pan.

3. Colour codes in strings in Commodore basic.

[doodab]

Something to print out powers of 2 on a VIC-20.

My school had BBCs and ZX81s but I was too young to be allowed to use them.

Not long after that my dad bought us a spectrum, and that is more or less why I do what I do today.

[MarillionFan]

I dabbled for a while before knocking up a game called Jet Set Willy and then Manic Miner on the spectrum. Piece of piss really.

Old Hack

[vetran]

right you lot, its all your fault:

the home of 'eightyone' the sinclair emulator

EightyOne - THE Sinclair Emulator

games

ZX81 Tape Collection

I smell a wasted evening

[Jeebo72]

I dabbled for a while before knocking up a game called Jet Set Willy and then Manic Miner on the spectrum. Piece of piss really.

Old Hack

You wrote Jetset before manic?