> > 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.
>
> Let's see...there was the adventure game
> where you were supposed to be a mailman
> delivering mail to some guy way up in the
> mountains...I never did finish that one. There
> was the "catch the raindrops" game, similar to
> the old Atari 2600 game "Kaboom!" There was
> RUNPaint, which I spent hours drawing
> pictures on using a joystick...gah. And there
> was that marble game that didn't work. I
> checked it and double-checked it against the
> checksum numbers, but it refused to run. I
> was so mad...it took me over a week to enter
> that program in, and all for nothing!
>
> Gri"remember the April Fool's program? I don't
> remember what year they ran it."shny

I don't have any detailed memories like that--I think my dad stopped buying RUN before I was old enough to really get into entering the stuff myself. I do rememeber him entering some of those programs, though, although I don't remember any details on any of them.

Don Monkey