good old times

[ampos]

No I meant emulated. Have you ever seen an emulator on an 8bit machine? 

It was supposed to be a joke. 

The C64 had a Spectrum emulator, although it can only run basic software.

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=ES#/watch?v=Ts96J7HhO28

[erico]

that is a strange youtube link, it shows "You have 4 videos in your Watch Later list"

edit: I guess I must have been "joked"

[mentalthink]

For Sultan Maze better Use turboCharge!!! 

Well I rebember the first time I look this game in my CPC... I wish want Die!!!, and ho mommy and the "plaga galactica"... lukcy the most importat enterprises in Spain and UK, make really art works... whit her games!!!.

80´s 

[Ian Price]

Galactic Plague was a pretty good Galaxian clone IIRC. The worst game ever though had to be Bridge It. Awful in every possible way.

[ampos]

that is a strange youtube link, it shows "You have 4 videos in your Watch Later list"

edit: I guess I must have been "joked"

No, you wasn't joked. It was my mobile device joking both of us. The corrent link is

[MrTAToad]

Haven't seen that for ages!

[mentalthink]

In the 1:16 minut say the really thru... made a Generation of Coders... or almost people very interesting for computers... I think the kids of today don´t have too much interesting about code... only Play... in the most of cases...

[Ian Price]

I think the kids of today don´t have too much interesting about code... only Play... in the most of cases...

I think you're right on the whole, although to be fair, how many people did you know back in the 8bit days that coded? I didn't really know anyone in my school that dabbled in code at all. I had a mate that would copy out the odd listing on his C64 but that was it really.

My 15yo son has no interest in coding now (he did briefly at 8, but realized it was a lot of hard work). Few people understand how much work can go into even the simplest of apps.

I'm sure some kids want to (and do code) but the majority don't. So no change at all then really.

[Kitty Hello]

He's 15 and does not code? 

I have two girls. Typical girls. I don't expect any to get interested in coding, but let's see...
I got an C64 BASIC for the iPad and we had a play with:

Code (glbasic) Select Expand


input "Enter your name: ", name$
print name$+" you are a "+data$(rnd(4))


and they sort of liked it, so there's hope.

[fuzzy70]

Pretty much the same here, I can remember all my mates that had computers like Spectrums/C64's/CPC's etc used them for playing games. Only 1 other than myself done any coding & the scary thing was both of us knew more than the teacher in regards to coding. Back then I think there was a shortage of computer studies teachers as it was still a new subject as such.

Lee

[MrTAToad]

You need to get GLBasic for the iPad up and running!

[fuzzy70]

[Ian Price]

knew more than the teacher in regards to coding.

Same here. We didn't even have computer studies, but we did have a teacher that knew a (little) bit about coding.

[fuzzy70]

We had a Research Machines RM 380Z with 2x 8" floppy drives & green screen monitor. Only 1 of them & it was chained to a trolly. Only an adult would have been able to steal it as this piece of kit weighed shitloads lol. It wasn't until about the 4th or 5th year of secondary school that we got BBC Micros by which time we had a new Comp Studies teacher.

The original teacher was a chemistry one I believe who got thrown straight in the deep end  the poor sod. I will never forget when he said "Insert the disk then press 'B' on the keyboard for bootstrap" & when asked why it was called "bootstrap" he just stared blankly into space. Took him 2 weeks to find the answer to that  .

Lee

[okee]

I think the kids of today don´t have too much interesting about code... only Play... in the most of cases...

I took the kids (age 6 + 11) to a Coderdojo today, ok they had a choice between Scratch and Html but it's a start
They loved it, about 140 kids turned up, they're starting to crop up around the country here and the guy that started
it is travelling around the world helping groups that want to start. It's free very casual and they have loads of
mentors going around helping.

https://twitter.com/#!/shoyne/status/180330842382548992/photo/1/large

http://coderdojo.com/