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Title: Hello from Melbourne, Australia
Post by: Sektor on February 28, 2013, 03:48:08 AM

I got my first computer when I was 5 years old. It was a breadbox  Commodore 64 with a tape drive and Wizard of Wor cart. I owned original  Jumpman on tape. When I got bored of looking at flashing coloured lines,  I rode my bike around the block until tape games finished loading (this  often took several laps). Jumpman (http://gtamp.com/jumpman)  was my favourite game. Sometimes I would leave the C64 on overnight  since the loading times were so bad but of course it had a loose power  cable, so if someone knocked it, the computer reset.

My C64 was stolen when I was 8 (house was robbed). It had "Rolf Harris Picture Builder" in it at the time :P

A few years later my parents replaced it with an Amstrad PC-1512 (CGA  monitor, 1 x 360KB 5.25" floppy drive,  8 MHz Intel 8088, 512KB RAM). It  felt like a downgrade from my C64 since C64 has superior sound and more  colours.

I had typed in BASIC programs on C64 but I didn't really learn much  BASIC until I got the Amstrad XT. It had BASICA/GWBASIC and I made  hundreds of small games, stick figure demos and a face building program  (it gave you a choice of shapes and sizes for head, eyes, mouth, nose  etc). Unfortunately I've lost them all now.

It came with Bruce Lee (I got really far in this but never finished  since the electric ground parts just moved way too fast), Tag Team  Wresting (I got really far but it always crashed before I won the  title), The Trading Company (finished many times) and The Dam Busters  (it was hard at first but I bombed that Dam eventually).

Alleycat and Digger were some of my favourite DOS games. I've ported (badly) Digger (http://gtamp.com/digger) to DS (http://gtamp.com/DS), PSP (http://gtamp.com/PSP) and Wii.

The first Amiga that I owned was a second hand 600 with no hard drive  and the internal floppy drive rarely worked. Fortunately 2.04 KS let me  boot off an external floppy but many games needed to run/boot from DF0.  Transplant was one of my most played Amiga games but that could just be  because it was multiplayer and I didn't have many games. Tanx n Stuff,  Dogfight and Croak were all fun. I made animations with Fantavision by  Broderbund (amazing program, very much like Flash but at least a decade  earlier). I might upload them sometime.

I've had many Amiga 500s over the years but I'm down to one now and I will be selling that. I'm  most attached to my Amiga 1200 with a Blizzard 1220/4, PCMCIA ethernet and 430MB 3.5"  hard drive (I'll put a 4GB CF in there soon).

Title: Re: Hello from Melbourne, Australia
Post by: Ral-Clan on February 28, 2013, 04:08:41 AM

Nice story,

Fantavision was good. I've just been reading the manual as I'd like to make some animations with it.  Would be nice to see your animations.

Title: Re: Hello from Melbourne, Australia
Post by: Oldsmobile_Mike on February 28, 2013, 05:39:12 AM

Quote from: Sektor;727728

Jumpman (http://gtamp.com/jumpman)  was my favourite game.

Boy, I remember Jumpman!  I was 8 when my family got our C64 (around 1984), would compete against my mom all night long, how's that for a bonding experience?  Ha!  ;)

Title: Re: Hello from Melbourne, Australia
Post by: Azryl on February 28, 2013, 06:53:45 AM

Hiya, welcome to Amiga.org and glad you kept Commodore gear enthausiasm!
There really is something special about old games/demo's on the c64 and Amiga

Az

Title: Re: Hello from Melbourne, Australia
Post by: mrknight on February 28, 2013, 12:51:40 PM

Welcome! Nice to know that I'm not the only one from Melbourne.