My story exactly. Played around with Amos, was interested in assembler but it wasn't practical to get into it. I went to the library and could only find one man

My story exactly. Played around with Amos, was interested in assembler but it wasn't practical to get into it. I went to the library and could only find one manual about game programming tricks (not the basics) in 68000 asm, but it was too advanced for me and I didn't even have an assembler. You just had whatever software your friends happened to have or what was included on coverdisks that came with magazines. Also like your story, later I realized that I could actually have had access to the software and information, since I was going every year to the Assembly demoscene event and could have surely found the tools and information there if I had just tried harder. It's incredible how now you can just get any software and such wonderful tutorials for anything imaginable that you could want to learn. What a time to be alive.