gloriouscowThis is it. This is what it was all for. All the penposting. The hundreds of dollars of irresponsible eBay purchases.
For this moment.
And it was all worth it.
paulrickards@gloriouscow Love following along as your travel down the lightpen rabbit hole. I had a McPen for the Commodore when I was young. It literally felt like the future to touch it to the screen and make things happen. Wasn't a lot of software that used it though. It came with a disk and some programs, notably one that copied files between disks but pointing at them from a list. Super cool.
fraggle@paulrickards @gloriouscow just want to chime in and say I also appreciate all the light pen stuff. When I was a kid I remember occasionally reading about them in older books about tech, and I think there was a QBASIC API for them, they always seemed so cool and mysterious, perhaps partly because I never had a chance to try one. I've still never used one but it's cool to at least see others experimenting with them
@fraggle @paulrickards i'm glad to hear this. i was worried it was sort of wearing a bit thin, but I think there is legitimately interesting history here that hadn't been dug up yet, and I kept finding new amusing things.