Life in 8-bits

[lassie]

Here in Mexico 1985, our family got a bare C64. My older brother, wasted half of his saturdays typing programs that where printed in Ahoy and Compute! (a Mexican magazine for 8 bits computers). Me and my little brother, waited until he finished and played together at 1 am on sundays. At last, all the happiness went away when the 64 was turned off.
This happened for half year until my father bought the Datassette and we could store these programs.
A year later, we got the 1541 (second hand) and a new world began.

Hi is it very hard to get Amiga parts in Mexico?

[lassie]

My first computer was a ZX81 in 1981, what a horrible little computer

Keyboard like a lump of plastic (which is was), black and white and no sound.   As I could never get the cassette games to load I had to type in the code for each game I wanted to play from the games magazines which had the code for each game listed.   Can you imagine anyone doing that to play a game these days!

Have you ever played 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81? i heard that was a cool game on it

[lassie]

Yep that was meant to be one it's best games but I never played it because I couldn't find a cassette player that would actually work with the computer (a common problem), unlike Commodore products it didn't come with its own official cassette player.

The longest game I ever typed in was called 'Swag', it took me about 4 hours to type that sucker in (16k) and only got to play it for about 10 mins because I was told to go to bed

Yes that sure was a long time typing to get to play for 10 mins

[lassie]

Just one?

Still have a Vic-20 and C64 (OK, the C64 is broken at the moment, but it did work when I got it.).
Also have an Apple //e and //c.
And I have a Tandy Model 100 (8K only).

I use all (except the C64 obviously) to varying degrees.
Mostly the Vic-20 and //c.

I enjoy my Amigas the most, but the 8-bitters are still great!

desiv

Yes they sure are i still play on my Commodore 64 a lot, but also Nintendo Nes and Sega Master system. Cool 8 bit Consoles

[lassie]

Sometimes i even think the Commodore 64 makes better music than the Amiga in some games.

[lassie]

Never owned an 8 bit, but a friend of mine had a C64, which we got a lot of fun out of.
It seemed like a massive step up from his Atari 2600.

Yes there was quite a leap from Atari 2600 to Commodore 64. Maybe it is time you got one now with Datasette i still play on mine i got from my dad in 1992 and i have all the Tapes and most of them still work after 20 years