Sure, but there was a whole other magic era that followed that. That also got to work with low-level assembler and direct framebuffer/video access. But wasn't c

Sure, but there was a whole other magic era that followed that. That also got to work with low-level assembler and direct framebuffer/video access. But wasn't constrained to 320x200x8 screens with pictograph fonts ("petscii") and POKE/PEEK. It had other limits to explore other than shoving as much as you could into 64k of memory and 1Mhz of processing power.