I was forced to bin my original C64, tape deck, disk drive, joysticks, a couple of printers (one was a daisy wheel lol), many many games and apps and my own projects etc. It still saddens me thinking about it.
These stories rub a bit of salt in the wound but it’s pretty cool that there’s still interest in them. They were a fantastic thing - easy to use for the basics, powerful enough that once you moved past those basics (and BASIC itself) it still had plenty to offer. And crucially, in a modern context, it’s not so advanced that it leaves nothing for you to do - you still need to figure things out for yourself, and there’s a lot of satisfaction in figuring out a hack to make it do something. So good.
I’m tempted to get one but that’s a rabbit hole I’m not sure I have the time for these days!
I remember when I dumped my Tandy CoCo 3… Learned BASIC from analyzing code I typed by hand from magazines. Had a C64 & an Atari SE as well, but used the CoCo the most.
Finally a Commodore 64 with 128MB of RAM! I guess 64K wasn’t enough for everyone after all.
O M G, perfect homage.
Now do the A500
Back in the day, there was no drag-and-drop, and everything was done through a keyboard with arrow keys that needed the shift key to switch between directions.
I see someone never used GEOS back in the day…
