I truly love paper magazines but is using OCR for code listings…cheating? (Asking for a friend). #z80

@robert I bet they didn’t see that coming back when that magazine was new!

@odd haha, actually this issue is from 2003/4 I think. I enjoy reading the classic 80s/90s 8-bit magazines though. And BASIC type-ins are fun.

@robert I used to buy magazines with BASIC listings too. Almost 40 years ago now…

@dejus I remember trying to judge if a program would be “worth” the effort of typing it it. Anything too short you would assume isn’t a good game, but anything too long and it was too boring to type it in. And latter-day listings seemed to be filled with interminable machine code bytes. Bah!

But now I appreciate it much more. It’s a soothing/rewarding exercise in it’s own right.

Jamograd elevates it to an art form: youtube.com/@WhatHoSn.