Thanks Dien - interesting flashbacks.
The real fun (of course) was typing in the program listings from the magazines and hoping things saved to cassette before something crashed. That and adapting Basic for a different computer (hmm - wonder how I got started in programming!)
One weekly computer magazine here in UK had a one page cartoon advert on the back, partly created by Mel Croucher who wrote this
very readable book about one of his games.
Different times indeed!