07-10-2019
Yeah, I wrote all my own programs for the C64, in "Commodore Basic" or something like that, as I recall.
All the programs I wrote were related to land surveying, which were all based on geometry and trigonometry, calculating azimuths, distances, grids, grades, fill for construction sites, industrial sites, pipelines and highways (or customer billing / invoicing) and making morning print-outs on a dot-matrix computer.
I can still hear the sound of the dot matrix printer grinding out numbers for the days work as we drank our morning coffee and prepared to load equipment into the truck.
Those were the days ..... long hair down to the middle of our backs, notebooks and pen in hand, making big money as "modern day land surveyors" in a world where computers has not yet "made a splash".
For us, and our customers, the C64, the TRS80, the Amiga and more made us a pile of money, "back in the day".
It was the Dean of Students at Tulane University in New Orleans, many years later, who convinced me to "move on" from my career in land surveying (he said it was best not to work in the day to day weather, but become a EE / computer engineer), enroll in the engineering department and study EE.
At Tulane, we sat in the hall in lines and waited in long queues to use the first Apple IIs, then Mac 128Ks, then Macs 512Ks, the Mac Plus and then the Macintosh SE, for our lab reports and ran Fortran and COBAL programs on VAX.
What a great life and how lucky we were to experience the "dawn of the computer age" in every day life.
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parsec47
PARSEC47(6) PARSEC47(6)
NAME
parsec47 - retromodern hispeed shmup
DESCRIPTION
Defeat retro enemies modernly.
PARSEC47 is a retromodern hi-speed shoot 'em up where you get to defeat retro enemies modernly. The player must destroy enemies while
avoiding their projectiles and collecting green clusters of boxes for points.
OPTIONS
These options are available:
-brightness n
Set the brightness of the screen.(n = 0 - 100, default = 100)
-luminous n
Set the luminous intensity.(n = 0 - 100, default = 0)
-lowres
Use the low resolution mode.
-nosound
Stop the sound.
-window
Launch the game in a window.
-fullscreen
Launch the game in fullscreen.
-reverse
Reverse the shot key and the slow key.
-slowship
Use the slow speed ship in all game modes.
-nowait
Disable the intentional slowdown.
USAGE
How to play:
Movement
Arrow/Num key / Joystick
Shot [Z][L-Ctrl] / Trigger 1, 4, 5, 8
Slow / Roll, Lock
[X][L-Alt][L-Shift] / Trigger 2, 3, 6, 7
Pause [P]
Select the stage by a keyboard or a joystick. Press a shot key to start the game. All stages are endless and created randomly each time.
The game continues until you lose all ships.
Control your ship and destroy enemies. While holding a slow key, the ship becomes slow.
You can also select the game mode from 2 types. Press a slow key in the title screen to change the game mode. Each mode has a different
barrage pattern.
Roll mode: Hold a slow key to charge the roll shot energy. The roll shot is fired when you release the key.
Lock mode: While holding a slow key, you can shot the lock-on laser that aims an enemy in the front of your ship.
The ship extends 200,000 and every 500,000 points.
SEE ALSO
You can find more about the game on its homepage: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/windows/p47_e.html
AUTHOR
This game has been written by Kenta Cho <cs8k-cyu@asahi-net.or.jp>
PARSEC47(6)