[Coco] Jeweled

[Jim Hickle]

--- Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com> wrote:

> At 09:31 PM 5/21/2008, you wrote:
> 
> >--- "John W. Linville" <linville at tuxdriver.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 07:55:32AM -0700, Jim
> Hickle
> > > wrote:
> > > > How am I supposed to get any work done with
> the
> > > siren
> > > > song of that "Jeweled" game constantly drawing
> me
> > > > toward the emulator?
> > >
> > > Let the fever consume you -- it will pass
> > > eventually...
> > >
> >
> >Reckon it may take a while.  At one time I was
> playing
> >Tradewars so much that one night I was dreaming TW.
> >Woke up, back to sleep and back to TW dreams. 
> Really
> >strange, it was.
> >
> 
> 
> I've got you beat.  I used to write hand assembly
> programs in my 
> sleep when I was 18 or so.  I'd run them in my head
> then wake up and 
> pretty much know what I wanted to code up.  I
> remember when I was 
> writing Projector-3 (guess I was 27 or so), one
> night I had a bad 
> fever and ended up dreaming I was caught in a code
> loop and couldn't 
> escape.  This went on  all   night   long.  That's
> when you know 
> you're a coder.  :)
> If I'm not mistaken, it was the LZW routines in the
> GIF decoder I was 
> trying to figure out at the time.
> 
> 

Sounds like you'd caught a head code.