Other than vaping, I mean. 
To help teach myself assembly language on the new micro-computers, I wrote a program for my Toshiba T-100 (Z80A-based computer with 64K of memory) so the computer could play Tic-Tac-Toe.
Other people thought it was neat in a way -- there were versions of Tic-Tac-Toe written in basic, but mine was faster, cleaner, and even had a little animation (x's and o's running around the edge of the screen).
What they thought was weird was that the you didn't play against the computer, you just sat there and watched the computer playing Tic-Tac-Toe by itself.
There was a good reason for it (handling user inputs was a little more advanced than I wanted to try for my first complete program), but people still kinda shook their head.
Ever do anything that was perfectly logical to you but other people just didn't understand?
To help teach myself assembly language on the new micro-computers, I wrote a program for my Toshiba T-100 (Z80A-based computer with 64K of memory) so the computer could play Tic-Tac-Toe.
Other people thought it was neat in a way -- there were versions of Tic-Tac-Toe written in basic, but mine was faster, cleaner, and even had a little animation (x's and o's running around the edge of the screen).
What they thought was weird was that the you didn't play against the computer, you just sat there and watched the computer playing Tic-Tac-Toe by itself.
There was a good reason for it (handling user inputs was a little more advanced than I wanted to try for my first complete program), but people still kinda shook their head.
Ever do anything that was perfectly logical to you but other people just didn't understand?
