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The Sierra game The Colonel's Bequest came with a sheet of fingerprints that could only be viewed correctly through a magnifier glass with red color plastic. You had to identify the print to start the game. But for me, as a tight budget monochrome Hercules graphics user on the PC, the prints were very difficult to match a print shown on the screen. I wrote to Sierra (I was a legit owner of the game) and they sent a photocopied sheet of all the prints so at least they were cool about it.

So if you have to record the game from the record to a tape, why didn’t they just give out cassettes with the game already recorded on it. I think the record idea was rather stupid to begin with anyway. Lol

That’s not gonna load correctly with a crease in the play surface of the record. But a game on vinyl acetate?! Ok, new one on me.

lenslok took about 3 seconds to use back in the day. it was easier if you didnt make the calibration screen fit the lens if i remember correctly, but i had a 12 inch tv

Kari your soo nerdy hottie..... 😍😍

Hoping this is a continued series. Just subbed!

keep it up Kari!. good lord you are already at close to 50k subs!

oof I hated LensLok.. I had Tomahawk on my CPC which used those lenses.. and apparently the manufacturer only considered the two original monitors for their games. I played on my parents' 25" TV and there was no way to adjust the grid in a way that it fit the lens, so I always had to kinda ogle through the lens holding it in midair halfway to the TV until something resembling letters would appear. Thankfully, the reloading after the reset following the 3rd wrong attempt wasn't as much a punishment with the floppy version of that game.

7:22 I think I will end it on that good note😂

I never knew they had games on vinyl that's crazy!

I remember a listing in a Spectrum magazine where the first line was 10 RANDOMISE USR xxxxx. Now when the author sent in the app to the magazine they set it up that once it loaded it actually started executing further up into the code. The idea being was it filled the memory at xxxxx with usable code I think for a visual effect then it would GOTO 10 to run that effect and start the game. If you spent hours typing in that game and did not save it and just hit RUN it would run from line 10 and attempt to run non existent machine code and crash the Spectrum

There used to be a mod called a "happy drive" for the 1050. Sometimes it could actually remove copy protection. I couldn't afford one (I was 14) so I wrote my own sector copier. The. I found it could modify my drive to reduce rpm to creat bad sectors to copy copy protected disks. Anything my mod copied would have uts protection removed by the happy drive. A lot of pirated software was released because of me.. Sorry.. I was poor in welfare so don't be to hard on me.

I came here for the modding, I stayed for the leggings - she know's what she is doing!

You don't really need to apologise for the extractor fan... it's barely audible. 😅 I have to admit though, I'm jealous of all your tools! The de-solderer is great, but I really love the rubber mat you have, with the screw dishes and rulers. 😍

I'd try some from Sinclair Programs magazine and use a ZX81 😊 might need a 16K rampack though 😅

Sorry, just to clear this up, are all English children being taught 'Z' is pronounced "zee" these days? I feel old, and way too proud of being taught non American English.

i like.very good 🌼😄

You should make it in c or assembly to have a look how dev was thing ,in phyton it like a joke 🤣.

I used to have a CPC464, oh the good old days 😊

Thanks for this great video! Just picked up a famicom in Tokyo and this will help me get it working in Australia! Until I mod it again with a fresh Opentendo motherboard!

I picked up a C64 and an Ultimate II+ a while back. I def need to get them set up!!

The best part of these are the “it’s not a tutorial” but you explain what you are doing and why anyway. You may not intend for these to serve as tutorials but they are some of the best tutorials I have seen.

How does your Python Traitor's Castle cause a round to time out? You only compare start against time.time() once for each G loop, without comparing again as time.time() progresses. msvcrt.getch() is apparently a blocking call and so shouldn't progress beyond that function call until a key is pressed. I can only see the program working with a non-blocking call inside of a busy loop (unless going with callbacks instead).

😊love watching what your up to so clever and so cute 100 % thanks

i never ear sometime like that

so u ,like a pirate audio cassete, have transfer the disc on audio cassette and then u can play it with the c68 cassette tapse lec? no becuase if u did this so creative

I had this book and still got it somewhere. I remember typing in and playing the archery game on my ZX Spectrum 48K. It's great seeing you bring these fun little games back to life after so many years. I've still got the ZX Spectrum but it needs a new keyboard membrane.

This is a great topic...I remember many of these methods, especially the ones you couldn't get around easily. Rocket Ranger and Star Trek 25th Anniversary come to mind as some of the most memorable.

I much preferred the zx spectrum compared to the commodore 64

I had this and coudn't get it to load. I was so frustrated. I feel a little vindicated given how much difficulty you had getting it working.

I note how many 'old/older' people comment on here, so I'll do the same! As a 68-year-old, I can report the story of a colleague who programmed a cash dispenser to run Space Invaders, using assembler, in 1980/81. Because.

I had that book when it first came out - have you ever been hit in the back of the neck by 4 decades at once? 😁

Ah. I'm now 62 and remember typing in code from magazines in the 80s on my Spectrum 48k. Happy days. Most of ye games were rubbish though. 😂

If you can source a copy of Pete Shelley's ORIGINAL 'Homosapien' album on cassette, I believe there is a program embedded on there that can be run in a similar or identical way to the process you've outlined here. I'd be interested to see what it actually does if you ever get a chance to do a video on it. Just subbed and thanks for your content 😊

Ah man that sucks no wood grain.

Nailbiter 😉❤

That was very interesting. I heard of those games just never look into it. Nice job.

I learned quite recently (2021) that one of the games I played on the BBC Micro at school, 'Watchperson' by Mac Oglesby, was originally a type-in for the Commodore PET (from the book 'PET Games and Recreations' - there's a copy at the Internet Archive). So having run the original version in a PET emulator, I then ported it to some slightly more modern platforms -- the ZX81, the Spectrum and PCDOS.

As I kid was a bit wiser to the JSW colour code protection. Instead of using felt tips, I just created the grid using numbers, 1= Blue, 2 = Red, 3 = Magenta, 5 = Cyan, 6 = Yellow, 7 = White.

10 CLS 20 PRINT "SECRET WEAPON" 30 PRINT "ENTER DIFFICULTY (4 or higher):" 40 INPUT D 50 IF D<4 THEN PRINT "TOO LOW": GOTO 30 60 X=INT(RND(1)*8)+1 70 Y=INT(RND(1)*8)+1 80 FOR G=1 TO D+5 90 PRINT "ENTER GUESS FOR X AND Y (comma separated):" 100 INPUT X1,Y1 110 Z=SQR((X-X1)^2+(Y-Y1)^2) 120 IF Z=0 THEN PRINT "YOU DESTROYED IT!": END 130 IF Z<3 THEN PRINT "CLOSE" 140 IF Z>=3 THEN PRINT "NOT EVEN CLOSE" 150 NEXT 160 PRINT "THE ROBOTS HAVE SEEN YOU..." 170 PRINT "GAME OVER" 180 END Could someone tell me if this works, please? It my "optomised" version of the first game, and I've no BASIC box to run it on. 😢

Good video, Kari! Well done!

The thing they did not bargain on was just how much spare time and determination we had as kids

I love those old books. That's essentially how I started to learn programming in the 90s. If you have more of those I'd really like to see more. One thing you could have mentioned in your Python version though is that "cls" will only work on Windows and not Linux/MacOS. 🙂

Had a tape which removed the header less bit on spectrum games so you could copy them

Spent many an hour colouring in jet set Willy codes

Nice video! Where can I buy game magazines like you're showing in this video?

hello, what Python program are you using? And how do you get it to work with MSVCRT ? I import but the interpreter doesn't do anything .

You seem intelligent, have you ever considered creating the necessary framework in Python to run any necessary BASIC from the past (and yes, it can be done - easier than you might think)?

From France... I m born in 77 so i have used these pieces of hardware and i al impressed to see a young smart and clever woman showing this from the point of view of a dev... More... I am myself a coder si i really enjoy to watch your videos. It is direct and clear as cristal ! Thank you for giving a great lesson to men... You mâle it good ! Hope you will mâle live your show as long as possible and get a nid audience. Best regards from France !

New sub here! Good content! Looking forward to future vids Kari!