Author: Atari Raised (adsl-66-142-41-90.dsl.kscymo.swbell.net)
Date: 01-01-2004 13:59
Steve,
Thanks for the very informative, well written response. Actually I was weaned on TRS-80 CoCo but after only having a 4K machine with 16 colors, I ended up giving it up in college. After college I wanted a machine that I could program. One choice was the Commodore 64 but it was all peeks and pokes and Atari Basic was a much higher level language. I never could afford an Apple or an Amiga, and even the 800 wen it first came out, but by the time I graduated the 800 was affordable in a used machine so I went with that. Well, I never got to program it and I'm sure I never made full use of it by the time I gave it up for an Epson CPM machine and then eventually a 486 when I wanted to get on the internet. I never had a DOS or Windows 3.1 PC either. I was never much into games. I had a 2600 type but that was about it. I have never played home Nintendo, Sega, Sony, Lynx or any other but a DJ on the radio mentioned about getting a bunch of the original 2600 games built into a joystick and I also found where you can order CD's with some of the games. Yesterday, at work a friend told me about the emulators. At this point I would be interested in learning about those and in fact if I can download some of the games from Usenet where I spend alot of time anyway, or if you could point me to some good places on the web, I would try that. Thanks for taking me back and thank you for explaining the love of the 8-bit which apparently has never died and maybe never will. Isn't it just like holding on to your albums and your old turntable? I think I get it.
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