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Re: Life in 8-bits
« on: May 07, 2010, 07:31:46 PM »
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What was your computing like before Amiga.

Before Amiga I started off with a Vic20, then migrated to the C64.

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Did you think the mouse was for lazy people?

No, I actually was amazed by the mouse, and quite a bit jealous. I wrote my own "mouse driver" on the C64 long before I migrated to Amiga myself. That also got me to think a lot about GUI's (a concept completely unknown to me back then)...

But what *really* amazed me as a kid (for a child I was) back then, was the "light pen". Do you remember that concept? ;) And later came those pistols for games, based on the same concept...

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Did you program your own Basic games?

You bet! :)

And later machine code directly (not asm) through some cartridge I think (was it Final Cartridge III?)! I almost completed a real demo (with ripped music) of my own! (or rather several, I started up a lot of projects that I never finished off. The story of my life!)

:)
« Last Edit: May 07, 2010, 08:00:37 PM by takemehomegrandma »
MorphOS is Amiga done right! :)