I loved my c64. I knew about cobol and fortran because my father worked with IBM workstations. I'd heard something about that 10101010 strange language called machine language but i never went deep with it. I had my commodore basic books and i learnt from there about sprites, system calls and so on. I used a lot basic to write math quiz games with sprites resembling geometrical shapes (data, data, data, data, data
). I remember i even bought a fake cover keyboard that covered c64 keys resembling a piano keyboard to play with. Today I love heavy metal but i didn't know that those sid music i used to listen (i was about 10 years old) over and over were deep purple tunes!
The first time i saw an amiga, it was about 86/87. It was a strange machine with strange disks and strange colours (i called them "dead colours" because i didn't know how to define colour shades, opposed with simple brilliant colours c64 games had.) I saw it in a Commodore Computer Club i belonged to and it was an a1000 running a game. I was very disappointed by that strange machine, but in meantime i was totally fashinated by it.
I remember I was with a friend of mine saying something about the fact that the colours were ugly...
In a couple of weeks since that day I bought a 1.2 kstart a500 with logistix, superbase and so on...
