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I was a master of my Commodore 64 way more than I am of my iPhone
- vmorgulis 11y agoI miss my Amstrad CPC 464 and Atari ST too. The stack of softwares is too deep nowadays to control everything excepting in the world of microcontrollers.
- duncan_bayne 11y agoIndeed. Which is why recreational programming on Amstrads is still fun :) Check out http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/ http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/ and https://github.com/Octoate/cpc-sdcc-rom https://github.com/Octoate/cpc-sdcc-rom for some good starting points. Amstrads can still be had on eBay for reasonable money, and one can gradually buy enough hardware to make a fun system. I just obtained a floppy drive interface that I plan to use to connect an SD-card floppy simulator to my 464 ... fun times :)
- tosbourn 11y agoNice! I am tempted to pick up some of the old Amiga hardware I used to own and get playing again.
- duncan_bayne 11y agoYou should! I imagine it'd be cheaper than a nice modern gaming rig, and quite a lot more fun (IMO). Developing for those old systems is also a joy.
- vmorgulis 11y agoThis is great. I've seen a modern OS for 6128 but I can't find the link. There is this kind of spirit in the Forth language. I try to build something around it.
- duncan_bayne 11y agoYou're probably thinking of SymbOS? http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/SymbOS http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/SymbOS Screenshot here: http://www.cpcwiki.eu/imgs/7/73/Symbos21cpc.gif http://www.cpcwiki.eu/imgs/7/73/Symbos21cpc.gif
- duncan_bayne 11y agoOh, and if you're into Forth, check out: http://emucation.com/dl-rom-20511-group-6310.htm http://emucation.com/dl-rom-20511-group-6310.htm ... it's a Forth implementation for the CPC. I haven't tried it myself though.