Been on here a few days and bought a few items, I just thought i would just give a little bit of info.
started out with the usual stuff when i was 10-11, Acetronic then to an Intellivision (still have that 1) then to my dragon 32 (still have that also). i got into programming basic on the dragon 32 and quickly reached the machines limitation in basic, with no assembly programs (at the time) and ASM docs i needed to move on. I then saved up and got a C64.
I used to remove protection from C64 games and make my own loading screen tape loader, i was a bad boy back then (83-86) getting the latest C64 game hacking it, backing it up onto my 1541, dissassembling the game with my Expert Cart(still have it
) and re-saving it to tape with custom loading screens and music for my friends at school. I used to do my own music but no graphics i cant draw to save my life. i got into ASM in a big way with the C64 doing my own Demos as such simple stuff like 64 sprite trick scrolling with music and copper effects, when i got into music i had the FM cart with full size keyboard and sampler for my C64 but 64k was too small.
I then upgraded to my A500 (1.2) 512k wow how would i use all of that ram, got myself an action replay and started to ASM, this was more complex and i got better with practice. i got as far as hacking game protection (i seemed good at this at least) coding demos, simple ASM music, full screen parralax scrolling copper effects and sprite tricks etc but by this time i had started work, got some money, a car and an outside life
my coding kinda stopped.
i stayed with my amiga upto about 92-93, at the time in 92 I had a 512mb HDD (huge at that time) 8mb GVP 68030 , cdrom etc etc. I then seen a friend 486 dx2-50 playing a game called doom which put my 1200 to shame, thats when i got into PC and stopped ASM completely and still mess about with pc stuff (i used to build repair PC for a company here in england for about 5 yrs), my pc is i little behind atm, Intel i7 2600k and 4.4ghz, 16gb ram, 7tb harddisks raided and a revo pcie 110gb SSD. 480GTX and Acer 3d 120hz monitor with nvidia vision. blu ray writer etc all the usuall pc stuff. mostly use my pc for a few games but used as a media server for my xbox 360 and ps3. I used to run a game called Knights Online with a few friends for about a yr but too time consuming and gave that up.
just thought you should know a little bit about me. I didnt get any music or ASM into public domain apart from one, I programmed an Intro to a text based game called "The GRU", i never got a copy of the disk and ive since lost the source code over the years.. what i did keep was my music and an image of my amiga workbench HDD which i still use today but my Work part was lost with all my code etc..
after many years im getting my collection back.. here is what i have upto now.
Intellivision
Atari 2600
dragon 32 (3 of them 2 for spares)
amiga 500+
amiga 1200 3gb 2.5"hdd, 4mb phaze4 4mb ram (28mhz 68020) nice boost
amiga 600 (with jon hare stuff will be 4mb and CFhdd)
xbox modded 160gb
N64
dreamcast
gamecube
PSX old and the small one
ps2 old and new none mod
PSP UMD and PSPgo
gameboy all of them upto and including 3DS
sega saturn modded
PS3 slim 250gb
xbox 360 20gb, 120gb and slim 250gb
Wii
various pc's also. from p200 laptops upto my pc (wife says i have too much JUNK lol
)
what im missing but will try and get, run out of money for now.
C64 with 1541
Spectrum 48k
Kevin.
started out with the usual stuff when i was 10-11, Acetronic then to an Intellivision (still have that 1) then to my dragon 32 (still have that also). i got into programming basic on the dragon 32 and quickly reached the machines limitation in basic, with no assembly programs (at the time) and ASM docs i needed to move on. I then saved up and got a C64.
I used to remove protection from C64 games and make my own loading screen tape loader, i was a bad boy back then (83-86) getting the latest C64 game hacking it, backing it up onto my 1541, dissassembling the game with my Expert Cart(still have it
) and re-saving it to tape with custom loading screens and music for my friends at school. I used to do my own music but no graphics i cant draw to save my life. i got into ASM in a big way with the C64 doing my own Demos as such simple stuff like 64 sprite trick scrolling with music and copper effects, when i got into music i had the FM cart with full size keyboard and sampler for my C64 but 64k was too small.I then upgraded to my A500 (1.2) 512k wow how would i use all of that ram, got myself an action replay and started to ASM, this was more complex and i got better with practice. i got as far as hacking game protection (i seemed good at this at least) coding demos, simple ASM music, full screen parralax scrolling copper effects and sprite tricks etc but by this time i had started work, got some money, a car and an outside life
my coding kinda stopped.i stayed with my amiga upto about 92-93, at the time in 92 I had a 512mb HDD (huge at that time) 8mb GVP 68030 , cdrom etc etc. I then seen a friend 486 dx2-50 playing a game called doom which put my 1200 to shame, thats when i got into PC and stopped ASM completely and still mess about with pc stuff (i used to build repair PC for a company here in england for about 5 yrs), my pc is i little behind atm, Intel i7 2600k and 4.4ghz, 16gb ram, 7tb harddisks raided and a revo pcie 110gb SSD. 480GTX and Acer 3d 120hz monitor with nvidia vision. blu ray writer etc all the usuall pc stuff. mostly use my pc for a few games but used as a media server for my xbox 360 and ps3. I used to run a game called Knights Online with a few friends for about a yr but too time consuming and gave that up.
just thought you should know a little bit about me. I didnt get any music or ASM into public domain apart from one, I programmed an Intro to a text based game called "The GRU", i never got a copy of the disk and ive since lost the source code over the years.. what i did keep was my music and an image of my amiga workbench HDD which i still use today but my Work part was lost with all my code etc..
after many years im getting my collection back.. here is what i have upto now.
Intellivision
Atari 2600
dragon 32 (3 of them 2 for spares)
amiga 500+
amiga 1200 3gb 2.5"hdd, 4mb phaze4 4mb ram (28mhz 68020) nice boost
amiga 600 (with jon hare stuff will be 4mb and CFhdd)
xbox modded 160gb
N64
dreamcast
gamecube
PSX old and the small one
ps2 old and new none mod
PSP UMD and PSPgo
gameboy all of them upto and including 3DS
sega saturn modded
PS3 slim 250gb
xbox 360 20gb, 120gb and slim 250gb
Wii
various pc's also. from p200 laptops upto my pc (wife says i have too much JUNK lol
)what im missing but will try and get, run out of money for now.
C64 with 1541
Spectrum 48k
Kevin.
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