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Title: Humorous Horoscope program from the WACCI user group library
Post by: ComSoft6128 on 17:31, 01 June 19
BASIC program from 1991.

That's twice this week I've felt insulted by a CPC program, I feel a pattern emerging :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZA1pneUP4Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZA1pneUP4Y)


WACCI
http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/WACCI (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/WACCI)
Title: Re: Humorous Horoscope program from the WACCI user group library
Post by: AMSDOS on 05:04, 02 June 19
Quote from: ComSoft6128 on 17:31, 01 June 19
BASIC program from 1991.

That's twice this week I've felt insulted by a CPC program, I feel a pattern emerging :D



I hope for your sake you don't have the Telephone Directory (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=14375) by Alasdair Gillies.
To use it you must enter your own Data for the Person's Name and Telephone Number and if you wish to Exit the programme with '?', you'll get a rude message, that too was published in AA.
Title: Re: Humorous Horoscope program from the WACCI user group library
Post by: Gryzor on 08:45, 26 June 19
"THEN WHY DON'T YOU GO AND SLICE YOUR HEAD OFF WITH AN AXE AND BOIL IT IN A PRESSURE COOKER UNTIL IT EXPLODES!"


How could sucj a juvenile thing get the £20 award? Also you must incorporate the data to look up in the listing itself :D
Title: Re: Humorous Horoscope program from the WACCI user group library
Post by: AMSDOS on 11:28, 27 June 19
Quote from: Gryzor on 08:45, 26 June 19
"THEN WHY DON'T YOU GO AND SLICE YOUR HEAD OFF WITH AN AXE AND BOIL IT IN A PRESSURE COOKER UNTIL IT EXPLODES!"


That would have looked good using David Hall's Alpha Scroll programme which ironically was in the same issue.


QuoteHow could sucj a juvenile thing get the £20 award? Also you must incorporate the data to look up in the listing itself :D


It's unthinkable that A Telephone Directory programme gets £20 from todays perspective when the only use it has is some Head/Axe/Pressure Cooker Joke. Phone technologies has made it Obsolete. In it's day it may have been an attractive programme for Tape Users as no additional files were needed, just save the programme as you add more Contacts to it's inventory.
Title: Re: Humorous Horoscope program from the WACCI user group library
Post by: Gryzor on 11:31, 27 June 19
Ah, you've got a point about the tape use. Which goes to prove audio tapes are NOT a database medium!
Title: Re: Humorous Horoscope program from the WACCI user group library
Post by: scruss on 20:37, 29 June 19
Ah, good old BIRTHDAY: http://www.retroarchive.org/cpm/cdrom/CPM/BASIC/BIRTHDAY.BAS
It's off by one on my age, and it's kind of odd to see it reporting my future age for a date 19 years ago ...


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