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Very few things in life compare to kicking back late at night, turning on the Amiga and spending the next 12-15 hours in ASM-One writing and executing 68k assem

Very few things in life compare to kicking back late at night, turning on the Amiga and spending the next 12-15 hours in ASM-One writing and executing 68k assembly in tight feedback loops -with the occasional crash- until exhaustion forces one to stop. I spent the best years of my life with the Amiga and I wish I could do it all over again.. Later, I moved on to doing realtime graphics in DOS, first with Turbo Pascal and inline assembly (reading Denthor/Asphyxia tutorials) and eventually C and although I have fond memories of that period too, the Amiga will always remain supremely vivid in my memory. Utterly unforgettable. The meaning of life is to become a legend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jziQBWQxvok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jziQBWQxvok

smabie 7y ago
Did you make that? Pretty sick!
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- metroholografix 7y ago
  Kefrens did. It's one of the best Amiga demos ever made running on a machine with a 7MHz CPU and 1MB of RAM.
bitwize 7y ago
> Very few things in life compare to kicking back late at night, turning on the Amiga and spending the next 12-15 hours in ASM-One writing and executing 68k assembly in tight feedback loops -with the occasional crash- until exhaustion forces one to stop. I am just starting to understand this feeling -- both with a real Amiga 500 and with UAE on my "Pimiga" -- and oh, man. There really is nothing like it, aside from maybe programming a Lisp Machine.
pjmlp 7y ago
Similar experience. I was sadden to have gotten a 386SX instead of an Amiga, like everyone else on the group, in retrospective my parents were right in sponsoring a PC acquisition instead of the Amiga. However our "demoscene" gang used to spend weekend, mostly saturdays, where the Amiga owners would bring their computers into someone's place. Then we would have a mix of ProTracker or Assembly coding sessions, and some gaming to relax as well.
tralarpa 7y ago
I kept using my Amiga(s) as my main computer as long as possible, then switched to Windows NT and OpenGL. Very happy to have skipped the HIMEM/extender/etc. nightmare on MSDOS :)
zprunger 7y ago
> (reading Denthor/Asphyxia tutorials) oh man I read those as well! Nostalgia overload right now.

smabie 7y ago

Did you make that? Pretty sick!

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metroholografix 7y ago
Kefrens did. It's one of the best Amiga demos ever made running on a machine with a 7MHz CPU and 1MB of RAM.

bitwize 7y ago

> Very few things in life compare to kicking back late at night, turning on the Amiga and spending the next 12-15 hours in ASM-One writing and executing 68k assembly in tight feedback loops -with the occasional crash- until exhaustion forces one to stop. I am just starting to understand this feeling -- both with a real Amiga 500 and with UAE on my "Pimiga" -- and oh, man. There really is nothing like it, aside from maybe programming a Lisp Machine.

pjmlp 7y ago

Similar experience. I was sadden to have gotten a 386SX instead of an Amiga, like everyone else on the group, in retrospective my parents were right in sponsoring a PC acquisition instead of the Amiga. However our "demoscene" gang used to spend weekend, mostly saturdays, where the Amiga owners would bring their computers into someone's place. Then we would have a mix of ProTracker or Assembly coding sessions, and some gaming to relax as well.

tralarpa 7y ago

I kept using my Amiga(s) as my main computer as long as possible, then switched to Windows NT and OpenGL. Very happy to have skipped the HIMEM/extender/etc. nightmare on MSDOS :)

zprunger 7y ago

> (reading Denthor/Asphyxia tutorials) oh man I read those as well! Nostalgia overload right now.