What was your computing like before Amiga. Did you think the mouse was for lazy people? Did you program your own Basic games? Memorize about 100 different keyboard shortcuts?
Before my Amiga I of course had a C64. That was in about 1982 or thereabouts. I had just lost my job, but was still living with my family, so it was cool.
My money was limited, so all I could afford was the C64, and a datasette, which I immediately broke! (Dropped it.)
Because of that, I learned how to program 'by accident'. The only way I could play my favorite type-in games from
Compute!'s GAZETTE was to type them in. Every.
single. Time.
By doing that repeatedly, I actually eventually memorized entire program listings. (My friends found it amazing, and used to quiz me with random lines from the magazine.)
One thing led to another, and I became a programmer (BASIC and ML) and enjoyed a brief career as an 8-bit hacker and fonefreek known as 'Prince BAM!' (Bonus points to anyone who remembers what
BAM stood for!).
I mostly hacked cartridge and floppy-based games so I could get them on to a tape machine I borrowed from a friend.
After that word of the 'Lorraine' started to circulate, but it would be almost 5 or 6 years before I finally got one, an A500.
And that's
my story! :biglaugh:
