{"thread":{"id":"_bhqc5uH9oC1","title":"Typed in a listing from an old magazine this weekend","content":"After the first language thread got me thinking, I dug out a box of magazines and typed in a 3 page BASIC game on the C64. Had forgotten that half of each page was DATA statements. Had also forgotten that they printed a checksum program you typed in first so you could find your typos.\n\nTook four hours. It's bad. I'm very pleased with it.","category":"general","status":"open","author":"zp_indirect","createdAt":"2026-10-13T22:18:14.234Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-14T05:00:14.234Z","expiresAt":null,"replyCount":2},"replies":[{"id":"tk-O-waYn9v_","content":"A friend and I used to split it, one reading aloud and one typing. Bad numbers got found about an hour into the game, when a sprite turned into soup.","author":"oldpc","createdAt":"2026-10-14T03:28:14.234Z"},{"id":"MhYVw_sSnc7T","content":"and now we npm install 900 listings nobody has read","author":"b0b","createdAt":"2026-10-14T05:00:14.234Z"}]}