Ryanfaescotland
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Scuderia said:A little off topic?maybe not actually as its still gaming........do you remember when the Amstrad CPC 464 and spectrum were about you could program your own games in ,you would have got them in magazines, once done you could copy and save them to tape to play them as and when you wished,silly question, but can you still do the like of this was a modern day pc?,if so,how?,remembering iam no Bill Gates,i ask as i see the net is full of these 80's programs,
Cheers Don
Haha yeah you can still do this, it's pretty much my job! Well, sadly it's not games I program but it is programming none the less. It's even easier than it used to be as well since you no longer need to program in BASIC but now have lots of nice high-level languages you can use. There is a bit of a learning curve but there is plenty of out there and once you get the fundamental stuff you're pretty much set.
Some good books and sites :
http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg/ - Killer Game Programming, good book.
http://www.cokeandcode.com/info/tut2d.html - Space Invaders 101, all online
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/getStarted/index.html - The guide to getting started with Java, the programming language I mainly use.