Subj : Re: Green eggs, D'Bridge & JAM
To : Mark Hofmann
From : Nick Andre
Date : Sun Apr 18 2021 09:20 pm
On 18 Apr 21 19:02:19, Mark Hofmann said the following to Nick Andre:
MH> The Vic20 was my first computer, too. True story.. I won it in a Mother's
MH> essay contest back when I was 10 or 11 years old. It sat in my closet for
MH> months as at the time I had no interest in computers.
MH>
MH> One rainy day I decided to break it out and mess around with it.. The rest
MH> history..
Other people I knew at the time had the C64, or an Apple 2, or an Amiga...
maybe a PC or Tandy. All of them thumbed their noses at the Vic20 as just
a toy but I was sooooo stubbornly loyal to it because it was just fun to make
this thing do something with 3k of base memory and a tape drive. Countless
hours spent.
When I found out that someone wrote a Doom port; THAT to me is a true loyal
grand-master programmer who used that system to create a work of art.
Lots of Demoscene stuff was impressive too... using undocumented interrupts
and elaborate calls to the graphics chip.
Nick
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