> > Don "RUN Magazine brings back a flood of
> memories too" Monkey
>
> I used to spend hours and hours of my free
> time punching in the "enter it yourself"
> programs that were printed in RUN magazine.
> Their checksum program was a lifesaver. This
> was before I knew how to type, too, so I did it
> all by the peek n' poke method.

There was a similar magazine for the TRS-80 CoCo (Color Computer) that I used to get all the time, called "Rainbow". I remember entering tons of programs from it-- and some of them were quite nifty, at that, among which were a homebrew graphical command-based adventure called "Les Lutins". Too bad I lost the issue that one was in, gah...

And believe it or not, there's actually a website selling back issues of Rainbow. Wow.

-- codeman"main reason I used a CoCo was because the old VIC-20 had broken by then"38