I truly love paper magazines but is using OCR for code listings…cheating? (Asking for a friend). #z80
![screenshot of a computer display showing an in-progress scan on the left, and a partial view of a code editor on the right with coloured syntax highlighting. the code is Z80 assembly language.](https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.uploads.micro.blog%2F297%2F2023%2F8ae059613f.jpg)
I truly love paper magazines but is using OCR for code listings…cheating? (Asking for a friend). #z80
@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.
@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.