Comments on: My first computers http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2007/07/27/my-first-computers/ Musings on just about everything. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:10:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Dui http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2007/07/27/my-first-computers/comment-page-1/#comment-7186 Dui Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:07:37 +0000 http://www.gregrphoto.com/rassoc/gregr/weblog/2007/07/27/my-first-computers/#comment-7186 Hey Greg, This sure does bring back some happy thoughts for me. I'll never forget the day I got my C64. It was one of the happiest memories in my childhood. I hurried to learn some Basic quickly so I could build a D&D game with it. It actually became a local hit. lol Good times pal. Thanks for that. :O) Hey Greg,

This sure does bring back some happy thoughts for me. I’ll never forget the day I got my C64. It was one of the happiest memories in my childhood. I hurried to learn some Basic quickly so I could build a D&D game with it. It actually became a local hit. lol

Good times pal. Thanks for that.

:O)

]]> By: SEO http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2007/07/27/my-first-computers/comment-page-1/#comment-1870 SEO Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:29:00 +0000 http://www.gregrphoto.com/rassoc/gregr/weblog/2007/07/27/my-first-computers/#comment-1870 My first was a Vic-20 as well, but sprite heaven was going to the C64 and then to the C128 with it's SPRDEF command. <br> <br>With the transfering games, yeah it didn't really work over the phone due to the way it handles the modulation. We had 300 baud modems patched in to 2M FM amateur radios and sent them that way. <br> <br>There were 4 of us in a 5 Mile radius who could send code this way. <br> <br>Then there were the EPROM boards with toggle switches on the keyboard so we could boot in to "modified OS's". <br> <br>Them certainly were the days, thanks for the memories. My first was a Vic-20 as well, but sprite heaven was going to the C64 and then to the C128 with it’s SPRDEF command.

With the transfering games, yeah it didn’t really work over the phone due to the way it handles the modulation. We had 300 baud modems patched in to 2M FM amateur radios and sent them that way.

There were 4 of us in a 5 Mile radius who could send code this way.

Then there were the EPROM boards with toggle switches on the keyboard so we could boot in to “modified OS’s”.

Them certainly were the days, thanks for the memories.

]]> By: BC http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2007/07/27/my-first-computers/comment-page-1/#comment-1869 BC Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:23:13 +0000 http://www.gregrphoto.com/rassoc/gregr/weblog/2007/07/27/my-first-computers/#comment-1869 Same here. Nothing like Pong on a Vic-20 baby! Same here. Nothing like Pong on a Vic-20 baby!

]]> By: Nick Bradbury http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2007/07/27/my-first-computers/comment-page-1/#comment-1868 Nick Bradbury Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:04:23 +0000 http://www.gregrphoto.com/rassoc/gregr/weblog/2007/07/27/my-first-computers/#comment-1868 Your early computer experience is somewhat similar to my own. I started off with a cassette-based 4K TRS-80 Color Computer, and I also earned extra money by selling games (my first published software was a Frogger-ish game called "Possum Run"). Your early computer experience is somewhat similar to my own. I started off with a cassette-based 4K TRS-80 Color Computer, and I also earned extra money by selling games (my first published software was a Frogger-ish game called “Possum Run”).

]]> By: Tom http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2007/07/27/my-first-computers/comment-page-1/#comment-1867 Tom Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:47:24 +0000 http://www.gregrphoto.com/rassoc/gregr/weblog/2007/07/27/my-first-computers/#comment-1867 The Vic-20 had 3.2k of RAM, not 3.5 (either way it's less than the size of most of the emails in my Inbox). On mine I wrote a full blown, self scoring 4 player Yahtzee! game, but needed the 8k memory expansion module to make it fit...and that was after I took all the spaces out of my BASIC code. And I'm pretty sure you had a Franklin Ace, and a not-small amount of software download off of BBS, just like I did when I moved from Vic-20 to Apple ][e. 1200 baud was just where you wanted to be back then. <br> <br>They should port Loderunner to the Xbox IMO. The Vic-20 had 3.2k of RAM, not 3.5 (either way it’s less than the size of most of the emails in my Inbox). On mine I wrote a full blown, self scoring 4 player Yahtzee! game, but needed the 8k memory expansion module to make it fit…and that was after I took all the spaces out of my BASIC code. And I’m pretty sure you had a Franklin Ace, and a not-small amount of software download off of BBS, just like I did when I moved from Vic-20 to Apple ][e. 1200 baud was just where you wanted to be back then.

They should port Loderunner to the Xbox IMO.

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