Mine Sweeper
Back in 1980, I was given a Commodore VIC=20 computer for Christmas, this was my introduction to computers, a love affair I maintain to this day.
I loved it, I spent hours learning how to write programs in Commodore basic, all peeks and pokes to write code directly to the processor.
Anyway, after I dropped out of uni, I had kinda lots of times on my hand, and over time I developed a game for the ‘puter. Not expecting much, I submitted it to Home Computing Weekly.
After a few weeks I received a letter accepting the game, along with a cheque for £5.. whoo hoo. I was so chuffed.
Recently I have become involved in an open source project which is an online DVD Database http://dvdmetabase.sourceforge.net/ My love of developing software has been re-kindled.
There used to be a web site where you could view the game.. it’s gone.
Fortunately I have a scan.
By today’s standards it’s not great, but I am very proud of it
usul_of_arakis 
Steve; that thrill is something else; I started like you did, my first submission (a system that made the cassette drive act like a floppy with random-access controlled through motor timings) was rejected as cassettes were on their way out then. Later however I wrote a post-mortem crash analyzer that DID get accepted and I felt like king of the planet for a day. It was in assembler so the whole thing was a BASIC app that POKEd the assembler values into memory…if your app crashed or locked up, a single call displayed right where you app crashed so you could fix it…not that it matters. The point is I know how good it made you feel. Mine was published in Ahoy mag, forget exactly when….which reminds me I have a fairly important challenge for us that I need to take offline so see you there…
Jeff from across the pond
that is great Steve. You should be so proud. My kids want to design computer games and be millionaires (heheheh snigger).
Aw I used to do some computer programming in middle school and early high school. It wasn’t even this fancy, but it was such a high! I didn’t care that I was the only 13 year old girl I knew who learned codes and geeked out like that! With everything that’s out there now, I almost feel like people are cheating themselves out of all the logic puzzles that were fun to work out in the really basic stuff.
I’m trying to get back into it.
P.S. Sorry, this is @TheJediDoctor / @JediDoctorFrys .
Yes I know **grins*