Comments on: The first program I ever wrote myself http://madbean.com/2003/mb2003-10/ Your zero step program Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:32:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: bjd http://madbean.com/2003/mb2003-10/#comment-11 bjd Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:04:18 +0000 http://madbean.com/blog/2003-10#comment-11 <p>I remember one of the first programs I wrote at school. Apple IIe, much the same as you. Remember how you could INIT HELLO onto a floppy to setup a boot sector for it? We did a (low-res) animation that was a key entering a padlock. When you entered your password correctly it unlocked and you were in. Otherwise it denied you access. Then we did a hi-res one of a knight on a horse, and successful password entry got him in the castle.</p> <p>Problem was, everyone did a Ctrl-Break (??) to stop the program and just CATALOG the floppy. Took me ages of PEEKing and POKEing to figure out the sequence to prevent a Ctrl-Break from halting it.</p> <p>The other guy I did this with did well for himself. Last I heard he had moved on from the dog food factory he worked in and was now demolishing old buildings.</p> I remember one of the first programs I wrote at school. Apple IIe, much the same as you. Remember how you could INIT HELLO onto a floppy to setup a boot sector for it? We did a (low-res) animation that was a key entering a padlock. When you entered your password correctly it unlocked and you were in. Otherwise it denied you access. Then we did a hi-res one of a knight on a horse, and successful password entry got him in the castle.

Problem was, everyone did a Ctrl-Break (??) to stop the program and just CATALOG the floppy. Took me ages of PEEKing and POKEing to figure out the sequence to prevent a Ctrl-Break from halting it.

The other guy I did this with did well for himself. Last I heard he had moved on from the dog food factory he worked in and was now demolishing old buildings.

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