Jyoti MishraI'm gonna throw this out there because, if not Mastodon... then where?
Anyone still obsessed with any of the following:
#BBCMicro #Apple1 #Apple2 #Oric #AcornComputers #CommodorePet #6502 #6502 #65C02 #MosTechnology #6502Assembler
nicki xaphania mouse 🐁@Jyoti the Acorn Electron was my first computer. started learning BASIC programming on it at a young age, i was truly fascinated by the idea i could make this box display whatever i could think of on a television screen
@xaphania I used to LOVE programming when I was a kid but I never kept it up. Now I look at Python and I'm like aRHGHGHgg.
I can't believe I used to do 6502 assembler: https://bzangygroink.co.uk/archives/2005/02/23/6502-assembler-fun/
@Jyoti Python is about all I can manage these days. I'm going to try advent of code this year to get back into the swing of it
Richard Banks@Jyoti Sometimes you just need something simple - this is at my day job, doing useful work!
@2e0rtb You have no idea how happy that pic makes me! The first computer we had was an Apple IIe, I loved it! I remember it came with a game with a bunny and carrots? Or did I dream that?
I remember writing a rudimentary drum machine program on it just using ASCII and arrays to store 8 x 16 steps. The sounds were pokes! I wouldn't even know where to start tyring to that now in MacOS or Windows.
@Jyoti You didn't dream it, it's on the demo disk "Apple presents the Apple //e" which came with many new systems!
There's still plenty of us out there using an 8bit Apple, although these days a card with a USB flash drive can emulate four 32megabyte hard disks at once! Luxury!
Mark Gardner@Jyoti Quite obsessed with #Commodore #retrocomputing, especially the #CommodorePET and #Commodore64. I grew up in the 1970s and 80s in the same town as Commodore’s headquarters and had a #C64 and #Amiga
@mjgardner That's soo cool! I have four ST(FM/E)s but no PETs or 64s or Amigas.
Have you seen this:
I bought one and have the ST core loaded.
It has the same great MIDI connections as the original ST so my dream is of a modern sequencer running on it.
If I had the coding chops, I'd write one.
What is the MIST FPGA computer?
EffDee@Jyoti yep to most of those :)
sergio_101 has moved!@Jyoti hmmm.. .i was too broke as a kid for all that.. i could only afford to be obsessed with my TRS-80. oh, and HP Calculators.. but I'm intrigued..
@sergio_101 Oh, I never had a BBC B myself, we had them at school. They were sooo expensive, like £399 back then which would be... £1,405.27 now. :-O
bendingoutward@Jyoti seen the Commander X16? 8bitguy missed those days so much he designed a fresh build.
@bendingoutward I have, ta. I don't fuck with him because: https://www.reddit.com/r/8BitGuy/comments/j1h5bf/what_did_8bitguy_do/
But the system itself is obvs cool af!
@Jyoti ugh. Thanks for the heads up.
@bendingoutward No worries. I was very disappointed in him as I used to like his channel and the keyboard one too. :-/
rodlux@Jyoti I am :)
Paul@Jyoti I am a big fan of retro #AcornComputers #bbcmicro #BBCModelB #BBCMaster #AcornArchimedes and #AcornRiscPC computers.
Colin Haynes@Jyoti here's my story about my PET.
Ooh, lovely, ta!