First machine was a Commodore Plus/4 with Basic 3.5!! Although the machine did not have the gaming capabilities of a C=64, there was lots of free memory and extra basic commands, also machine language monitor built in! Programmed on my own, typed in stuff from Compute's Gazette. Software was hard to find. Lived with a tape drive longer than I wanted to. 300 Baud Modem and Higgyterm got me on all the C=64 BBS's! Saw an Amiga 1000 demo'd in my computer science class by two fellow student and knew that my world had changed.
I had its 'little bro' Commodore 16. There was a serious lack of software and this forced me to learn programming - at least - BASIC, and performing middle-difficulty tasks like redefining character set to code very simple games. Amusing.
Then I moved to the C/128. I felt the need to play C/64 games, but I didn't also like the idea to loose all my BASIC skills, so I started programming in 128-mode some GUI-driven utilities, the most difficult of them being a 80-column word processor using the 40-column mode of the VIC-II chip. I couldn't afford a 80 column display at the time. I stopped using my own editor when I could buy a Philips CM8833 monitor, though.
Then I bought an A500 and replaced it with an A1200. They were my last Amigas until I "amigized" my AspireOne A150 netbook with Icaros Desktop.
