Posted By
Mooce
on 2025-09-23
05:52:04
|  Re: What's going on with this program?
Thanks for the interest.
Do I have the magazine? maybe... It might be in a cupboard somewhere, I'll have a look when I get a chance. Funnily enough that's what I went looking for online to see if Landit existed on the web, only to discover that it was here.
Development? well I just wanted to see if I could get something published in a mag. 
My parents brought the plus 4 as it was cheap, I had no interest in computing back then as it was expensive and a new thing.
Back then I was a wannabe pilot and was hoping to do some flight simming on it, flying being even more pricey. That's how I started coding, by wanting to write a flight sim.
Of course, the +4 was way too slow to do this using BASIC, however BASIC 3.5 with its graphics commands was a great way to learn and it gave me the interest to get into IT which did allow me to afford learning to fly!
Landit came about as it was the simplest thing I could get to run at a playable speed using BASIC, the mag returned it on the first attempt as they said it needed a better ship graphic, it was just a pixel originally so the s/gshape commands were used, slowed it down quite a bit!
Nowadays I code in c++ on Windows and having recently discovered oscar64 am having a go coding the old plus 4 using it, maybe I'll redo Landit in C.
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