When husband and I were in college (early 1970s) the computer was a mainframe with remote work stations around the campus and we were learning to program in BASIC. Big thing was to write a game program – no graphics other than by using letters to form vague shapes – the big thing was when the program worked and the screen said "BANG! when someone shot a gun.
But that was a great advance over when I first learned my senior year of high school to program in Fortran II – it was all punch cards back then. The stack of cards one had punched to program the computer (first written on special programming paper which had line after line of the boxes which matched the boxes on the cards) would be fed into the compiler – back then same was hardware, not software, and was a huge computer-like device – as large the computer itself – which took one’s punched cards and converted them to a different deck of punched cards in machine language. One then took the second deck (machine language) and fed that into the actual computer (which was about the same size as an office desk in those desk (the desks being much larger than now). Then either the program would work or one would have to start over rewriting program, repunching cards,, feeding them into the compiler again and then feeding same into the computer again and hope it worked that time or repeat again until it worked.
(When we cleared out the family home last year when it was sold as 91yo mother had to move to assisted living, among the items I found were all the books (large paged, softcover) I used for the high school computer course.)
danketaz Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Think Adam would notice any difference?
ronaldspence almost 4 years ago
Adam might go for it if it featured “Brain Cramp Mode”
Doctor Toon almost 4 years ago
Those do not sound like fun games to a man less than 2 years from 60
Lawrence.S almost 4 years ago
Two of the less popular programs for Wii Fit. Although favorites of the Swallow a Tide™ Pod Challenge crowd.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member almost 4 years ago
I agree. I am not fond of any game, or food, that advertises pain right in the title.
nosirrom almost 4 years ago
What’s next? “Compound Fracture”?
You get to choose whether you want to be Joe Theismann or Lawrence Taylor.
mistercatworks almost 4 years ago
I’ll wait for the e-book.
BJIllistrated Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Sounds like it’s right up Adams alley.
mafastore almost 4 years ago
When husband and I were in college (early 1970s) the computer was a mainframe with remote work stations around the campus and we were learning to program in BASIC. Big thing was to write a game program – no graphics other than by using letters to form vague shapes – the big thing was when the program worked and the screen said "BANG! when someone shot a gun.
But that was a great advance over when I first learned my senior year of high school to program in Fortran II – it was all punch cards back then. The stack of cards one had punched to program the computer (first written on special programming paper which had line after line of the boxes which matched the boxes on the cards) would be fed into the compiler – back then same was hardware, not software, and was a huge computer-like device – as large the computer itself – which took one’s punched cards and converted them to a different deck of punched cards in machine language. One then took the second deck (machine language) and fed that into the actual computer (which was about the same size as an office desk in those desk (the desks being much larger than now). Then either the program would work or one would have to start over rewriting program, repunching cards,, feeding them into the compiler again and then feeding same into the computer again and hope it worked that time or repeat again until it worked.
(When we cleared out the family home last year when it was sold as 91yo mother had to move to assisted living, among the items I found were all the books (large paged, softcover) I used for the high school computer course.)