I hit the scene a decade before you, in the 8-bit world, when all there was, was empty RAM. You had to fill it yourself, or there was simply nothing. Especial

I hit the scene a decade before you, in the 8-bit world, when all there was, was empty RAM. You had to fill it yourself, or there was simply nothing. Especially for the lesser platforms of the time that were competing for attention, this was a lesson in frustration. At least you had magazine tutorials. All I could have done, and did, back then, was learn how to disassemble ROM routines, by FIRST writing a disassembler - in BASIC. So yeah, they were very motivating days.