Andy Pennell's BlogSee me blather about software development, Audio/Visual stuff (esp HD DVD), Tech Toys, Fatherhood, plus anything else that gets me going.My First Program (circa 1980)- July 30, 2007 I recently discovered my first real program(): from 1980, it was my attempt at Space Invaders for the RML 380Z. This was the government-subsidized computer for schools, my school (Chatham House Grammar School) was lucky enough to have one. One, yes, for the whole school. The Research Machines 380Z was a Z80 CPM machine, I forget how much RAM but it couldn't have been more than 64k of course. The graphics abilities were primitive (and monochrome) but I did manage a fair duplication of the...http://blogs.msdn.com/andypennell/archive/2007/07/29/my-first-program.aspx |