Recent content by mike-d

Declaring interest.(Marked as sold/completed by tbtorro)

Hi! On the c64 where I started it was basic and then assembly. I also used GeoProgrammer a bit for Geos. It was hard to learn back then because there was no internet, I basically had magazines and the libary. And the books at the library were slim to none and what was there was at least 5 years...

Thanks! And I agree. It's fun to own these machines but I think the other side of that is the responsibility of maintaining them for the long term. So either being able to solder or having access to someone who can do it for you is important. It's the same for owning a classic car, you need to...

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Thanks! You're right, it would have been a lot of fun to be able to look through my old work, not just the code but school work like projects and essays too. I'm sure a lot of us are in the same boat and have lost creative things we made with our computers back then, it is a shame.

Hi everyone! I'm a software developer and got my start on Commodore machines so they have been a big part of my life. I had a 64 breadbin I got for Christmas when I was around 10 years old - I used that with a datasette and black and white tv for years until eventually getting a 1702 monitor...