{"id":6253,"date":"2014-08-25T08:30:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T15:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=6253"},"modified":"2014-08-25T08:30:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T15:30:31","slug":"i-spent-sunday-tampering-in-gods-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/25\/i-spent-sunday-tampering-in-gods-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"i spent sunday tampering in god&#039;s domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=640 height=480 src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2014-08\/strek2014.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I may have spent my Sunday off &#8211; my first day off in like three weeks &#8211; debugging UNIVAC Star Trek game code that was ported to TRS-80 Level II BASIC some decades ago. That may be a thing that happened.<\/p>\n<p>(Well, I found some bugs. No, I did. One crashing! That doesn&#8217;t happen anymore. Also, now if you enter your name wrong, instead of hanging, it names you Captain Dunsel. It seemed appropriate.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2014-08\/strek3.cas\">Here, have a copy of the audiocassette<\/a>. Or <a href=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2014-08\/strek3.bas\">a printout<\/a>, if you&#8217;d prefer that. 16K required.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know Level II BASIC&#8217;s built-in programme editor was based heavily on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Text_Editor_and_Corrector\">TECO<\/a>? I feel a bit like Scarf Doctor stumbling across Shemp Doctor&#8217;s TARDIS console room and tin whistle. Or maybe it&#8217;s kind of like I spent Sunday afternoon flossing out my brain. For SCIENCE! Or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may have spent my Sunday off &#8211; my first day off in like three weeks &#8211; debugging UNIVAC Star Trek game code that was ported to TRS-80 Level II BASIC some decades ago. That may be a thing that happened. (Well, I found some bugs. No, I did. One crashing! That doesn&#8217;t happen anymore. [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-coolness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}