Where were you in 1982?

[kbracing96]

C64 games----JumpMan----!!!! Ya baby!! I did play that when I was a youngster!

[joecar]

lol, yeah, the 80's were.

[fyi]

Hmmmm, let's see..... I think I was saving my home business of lawnmower repair money (no kidding...) to purchase a state-of-the-art Tandy 1000 desk PC for the low-low price of $2800.00 with the optional dual 5 1/2" floppy disc drives!! Man was that thing the bomb back then!!!

Now that computer was the *trick* one of the day if I recall.... Geeezzzz, age IS creeping up on me.....


-john

[joecar]

optional dual 5 1/2" floppy disc drives!! Man was that thing the bomb back then!!!

Mate, you had it made.

[Doc]

20 years ago I was fifteen, had long hair, and was in Norway. Monday, I leave for a week long business trip to Norway. 20 yrs ago if I would have had a chance to peak into the future and see all the wonders life has to offer now-wow! Moates controller! I beat up servral Trash 80's, C64's...I can't wait for what the future holds for me now at 35.

[Garry]

Been there, done that ... did lots of programming myself, can't beat the knowledge and experience you get out of programming them lowly systems ... even after switching to the Amiga, I went back 2 years later and hacked together a parallel port debugger on the 64 as a terminal for the Amiga, as I didn't have an RS232 terminal available ... changed the Amiga Kickstart to use the parallel port instead, did my own 80 char emulation for the 64 ... those were the days ...

Years later, you get your hands on ATMEL microcontrollers, quick read of the features (more and faster than the whole C64), and off you are programming it, even using the assembly code ... all you need is the mnemonics and syntax ...

Kids nowadays won't go close anything like that. Too low-level. If it ain't VB, they're not touching it ...

[joecar]

Yeah, I liked the Z80 over the 6502, but I loved the M68000 when it came along in the late 70's, it's internal architecture was 32-bit (even tho the external bus was 16-bit), way ahead of any Intel junk or any other microprocessor at the time; it's still my favourite MPU of all time.

Nowadays everyone uses Java and XML to do things, who even touches assembly language any more (compiler writers do, and I do).

[GMPX]

O.K, I win, I win, when I did my programming course back to school (6809 assembler), we had to write a program in hex to control a moc factory conveyer belt that checked a few things and routed the product in different directions.
Easy enough, but it had to be done in hex!!, from the op-code sheet then calculate branch address's, yes, one thing changes, the whole lot is screwed.
Talk about doing it the hard way!, but, it sure makes this 6833x assembly easy .

It's funny how so many C64 owners then went to the Amiga (me too), I finally caved and got a PC once Commodore was dead and gone.

Also, the Atmel, that is what we use in the Flashscan adaptor, a Mega8 in fact, great device for sure.

To finish off my programming rant, some great quotes -

"Visual Basic is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration"

"Visual Basic is a poor imitation of an object system for a poor imitation of a programming language that poor imitations of programmers use to write poor imitations of programs for poor imitations of employers who pay poor imitations of programmers' salaries"

Assembler programmer's motto:
Every bit is sacred, Every bit is right.
If a bit is wasted, I can't sleep at night.

Cheers,
Ross

[Garry]

Yeah, the Atmels are nice ... did a whole dragracing timing system with a single Mega163 controlling the tree, timing, everything ... (Linux PC only delivers and receives the data)

[caver]

Hmm lets see I was finishing my compulsory 2 year tour of South Africa,Namibia and Angola courtesy of SANDF and sons.
SANDF= South African Defence Force