Being in right from the start of what can truly be called the beginning of the "home computer experience" there's nothing "Rose Tinted" about it... 
Totally agree Franko. Our first home computer was a timex sinclair. When not dinking with this I was a big Pet4032 user at my school. I would go to school very early each day in order to get 'Pet time' up in the math department. Our second home computer was a C64. I went off the deep end with this one. Staying up all night very often. Typing in Compute or Computes Gazette for Commodore programs. Reading everything I could from Jim Butterfield, etc... I even dabbled in machine language towards the end. Back then there were various camps. I was of course Commodore. But other friends had atari's, TRS-80, TI-99, etc... It was fierce competition between us back then. All fondly remembered of course. My Amiga experience was less programming and more game playing unfortunately. I just left college and entered the workforce so didn't get a lot of time to hack like I did before. I still remember firing up Sword of Sodan for the first time and being amazed at the capabilities of the A500 compared to the PC's of the time. It was as good as an arcade machine. And I did loads of hacking around in MS-DOS back in the early days of that too. I stay in this wacky game for pleasure now adays.
