Date   : Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:01:47 +0100
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: Review: Micro Men

On 09/10/2009, afra@... <afra@...> wrote:
> Quoting Rob <robert@...>:
>> and particularly grating, just prior to the BBCs visit, Roger
>> furiously typing but just a hex dump scrolling up the screen.  Yeah,
>> right ..!
>
> Yeah I spotted that too :) but it is kinda hard to 'act' working like
> that unless you actually know what you are doing.

Nah .... just prepare some realistic looking text ahead of time, in a
file, and run

X%=OPENIN("Stuff"):REPEATVDUBGET#X%:U.GET=999 OR EOF#X%:CLOSE#X%

(you can even leave off the EOF and CLOSE if you don't care how it ends ..)

..then you can hammer away on the keyboard as badly as you like, and
the "right" stuff will appear...  Feel free to add code to cope with
fast responses and pauses...  I'm sure I read somewhere that this was
much how they did it for the typing shots in Wargames.

Did the prototype really say "acorn computer" as a startup?  It'd be
cool to see a dump of THAT version of the MOS !  Wonder if BeebEm
would run it..

Another blooper .. there was a DFS in the machine used for the launch
PRINT "HELLO"... It can't have been available that early - the first
machines' OS 0.10 didn't leave any ROM sockets free to put a DFS ROM
in, for a start!!

Rob