Does anyone still type in game programs from magazines?

[bandit]

I did type in programs, then a few years later ANalog and antic and these disk was out, thats the way I went.

 

I did type in and share with others compute ect..

 

I did not see it here, but did you all know that Computer Shopper Had programs to type in ? That was a HUGE

magazine atleast 2 inchs thick that had programs for Atari, Commy TI ect..

[+therealbountybob]

OK how can I search just for typed in programs from say Atarimania? And if not there where are the typed in listing games so I can download them and try them?

 

I ask because typed in games can be quite fun on systems with lots of cool hardware features, which the A8 does have.

 

Atarimania is your best best for type-ins, but there are still MANY missing titles. You could do a search for BASIC progs, but the list would likely be fairly overwhelming. I like to categorize things by publisher (Analog, Antic, Compute!, Dell [Paul Bunn book]). Some day I will have them all collected in sets, I hope.

 

Thank you for explaining. My new mission is more Atari video gameplay uploads.

on Atarimania click on 'Advanced Search' then select Page 6 Magazine (Atari User, Antic, Analog etc) from the 'Publisher' box e.g. here Page6

[Blueliner03]

Spent plenty of time keying in games like Safe Cracker by hand, even took a stab at player missile graphics at one point. I still use the old Football Predictor program from ANTIC Oct 87-ish as a base for a current Excel file. As a matter of fact, I made an attempt to port Entrepreneur Jungle to MS Excel as well as MicroLeague Baseball (Text only of course). Time constraints... Not 1987 anymore.

[Keatah]

I have scanned in some type in programs for my TRS-80 via my scanner and OCR software and converted the files to a raw text format, then imported them into a disk image which I can use with an emulator or write to an actual disk.

 

Wouldn't it be faster to just type the stuff in?

[+wood_jl]

Pleasant memories. Typing in for hours - on an Atari 400 membrane keyboard.

 

Middle of the living room floor, on the family's Zenith console TV.

 

Save to 410 recorder, only to find it was a "bad save" - OR -

 

Your sister walks past and trips over the power cord, which you had stretched max distance across the walking path.

 

Start over.

 

HA HA.

[potatohead]

Ahh... The Zenith Chromacolor II. Had the same setup, did the same things. Saved it multiple times after the bad save. Never had anybody trip on the cord, though I did lose the better part of a game I made from some truck taking out the power pole.

[Keatah]

When we'd have gaming marathons and "parties" I'd tell everyone the cost of admission was that you had to spend some time typing in a portion of a long program before you could play anything. So while they were typing in stuff I'd go off and play something, telling them I was working too! Testing out the joystick connections and switches to be sure everything would work for the upcoming gaming session.