Amy

Ahhh yes, good old Windows Entertainment Pack.

I remember one level where you had to skate around a maze that required you to find the route by trial and error and memorize it. Don’t think I ever finished the whole game; it got pretty difficult later on. At least for 11-year-old me.

Ouch, this one is too real!

Same.

Me: Oh! A chance to do all the things that have been building up on my checklist!
Brain: But what about all these other things I just thought of? And you still haven’t even started learning Korean…

Many fond memories of using RISC OS as a kid. It’s good to know that it’s still alive!

Bravo.

Most people would use “word”, “half-word”, “quarter-word” etc, but the Anglophiles insist on “tuppit”, “ternary piece”, “span” and “chunk” (that’s 5 bits, or 12 old bits).

TDD

const max12 = (x, y) => {
    if (x === 1 && y === 2) {
        return 2;
    } else if (x === 7 && y === 4) {
        return 7;
    } else {
        return x;
    }
};

Got my first programming experience on the BBC Micro at school! (We never had anything as fancy as a Master though). Those heavy cube monitors and the “beep-boop” startup sound are iconic.

Um, actually… A signed 32-bit counter would loop back to December 1901, so the calendar is presumably 31-bit unsigned. (Sorry)

There’s always the classic C strcpy :)

char *strcpy(char *dest, char *src) {
    char *p = dest;
    while (*p++ = *src++);
    return dest;
}

It’s fascinating to read these in-depth retrospectives from the people who were actually involved.