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My first computer. I got it in 1992 (Eastern Europe was few years behind at the time). It was the version with shorter, thicker case. I only knew Polish. There
by ajuc 11y ago
My first computer.
I got it in 1992 (Eastern Europe was few years behind at the time). It was the version with shorter, thicker case. I only knew Polish. There was no internetm the manual was in German, and for a different version (video memory addresses or sprite registers were different I think - I tried to type in these few included programs with moving sprites hundreds times, and they did nothing - never got it to work). Still I've learnt a lot about programming, by typing the listed programs in and trying them out.
On saturdays my neighbor cut wood with electric saw, and loading games from tape didn't worked. I've had to wake up and load a game before he started, or the whole day was "wasted" :)
Also the power supplier heated up so much, that after +- 8 hours it stopped working. My uncle was an electrician, and he fixed that power supply a dozen times or so.
There was this blackbox cartridge, that allowed faster loading of games from the tape, had some programming tools (which I didn't understand at the time), and realtime multichannel piano (you could play chords no problem).
It's funny, that no piano on PC (or android) I've ever used was as responsive as that C-64 program.