History of computers and games
History of computers and games
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Read More→The annual BASIC 10-liner competition was invented in 2011 by Gunnar Kanold, a retrocomputing enthusiast who is teaching STEM disciplines at a secondary school in Friedrichstadt, Germany. The goal of the contest is to write the most exciting computer game in just 10 lines of BASIC, without machine code subroutines. There are three categories limiting the maximum line length allowed: PUR-80, PUR-120, and PUR-256. There is also SCHAU-256 category for non-game software, and WILD for submissions not fitting into any other category. Program should run on a 8-bit computer — such as Atari, for which an emulator exists.
Read More→In the late 1970s, the first personal microcomputers appeared, as well as a separate class of devices - word processors. These were microcomputers with specialized software focused exclusively on editing and printing texts.
Read More→In far 1988, being a sixth-grader, I became for the first time, acquainted with the computer. The DVK-3M with the integrated black-and-white display and two five-inch disk drives; gorgeous but not for now. My first acquaintance took place with games from ASP corp. ─ three young programmers who had specialized in computers of the DVK family.
Read More→The company was founded in California by Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne and Steve Wozniak, who built their first personal computer based on the "MOS Technology 6502" processor in the mid-1970s.
Read More→Sinclair Research Ltd is a British consumer electronics company founded by Clive Sinclair in Cambridge.
Read More→Atari is an American computer game production and publishing company. Atari had a huge impact on the emergence of the video game industry as a promising economy in the 1970s, and until 1984 held a leading position in the video game market.
Read More→Сегодня у большой компании юбилей, Intel исполнилось ровно 50 лет
Read More→Direct transfer to PayPal account: paybox@it8bit.club or info@leocraft.com on my name Dmitry Cherepanov
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