PhotonWrangler
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Eugene said:
Yes!! He was awesome. I think I recall meeting him once during my travels.
He was a legend in the Amiga community.
Were you a Commodore 64 programmer?
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Yes!! He was awesome. I think I recall meeting him once during my travels.
He was a legend in the Amiga community.
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PhotonWrangler said:
I did meet him once, either at SIGGRAPH or (more likely) one of the last World of Commodore shows in Toronto.
I nearly got myself booted off the MacLean-Hunter (now Cogeco) cable access team with one of his animations, when I was working in the truck just before we started rolling at a roast for the Mayor of Niagara Falls (Canada). My buddy Jeff asked for a video source to make sure that the big screen behind the head table was working, so I fired up Eric's "Anti-Lemmin' Demo", which was sitting on the desktop of our Video Toaster. Guests were sitting down at the time, and the supervisor was a bit miffed at that particular choice ... I heard later that he was about ready to can me right there.
Tangentially related: that was the day the Niagara Regional police finally arrested that SOB Paul Bernardo. The news flashed through the place midway through the event.
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The very first computer class I took in college was BASIC programming. Talk about high tech, we were all sitting in front of our very own Commodore PET's, no sharing computers in this class!
Saving our programs was a different story. Each student had to provide his/her own cassette tape, but the class only had one recorder, so it made the rounds at the end of the class period. That cassette recorder was such a pain to use, too. It was easier to keep a single program on a cassette than it was to try to recall one from a serial list of programs stored on the tape... Long way from 4G thumbdrives!
Those were the days, eh?
Ordin
Saving our programs was a different story. Each student had to provide his/her own cassette tape, but the class only had one recorder, so it made the rounds at the end of the class period. That cassette recorder was such a pain to use, too. It was easier to keep a single program on a cassette than it was to try to recall one from a serial list of programs stored on the tape... Long way from 4G thumbdrives!
Those were the days, eh?
Ordin
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The_LED_Museum
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I'm still looking for programs from this diskette:
There is a black rectangle here because one of my demos had a toliet word in its filename.
Think of a kitty cat being flagellated, and you can probably figure it out.
I already have all of the "MAGFACTOR" files, but none of the others.
TRANSITION/TDM has a ground-breaking 96 line $D016 wave on it.
THUNDERFLUSH/TDM has the digitised sound of a suicide-resistant stainless steel prison comby flushing on it.
There is a black rectangle here because one of my demos had a toliet word in its filename.
Think of a kitty cat being flagellated, and you can probably figure it out.
I already have all of the "MAGFACTOR" files, but none of the others.
TRANSITION/TDM has a ground-breaking 96 line $D016 wave on it.
THUNDERFLUSH/TDM has the digitised sound of a suicide-resistant stainless steel prison comby flushing on it.
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This brings back memories..... Back in 84 or 85, I was stationed in Hanau, Germany and was pulling CQ one night, my runner asked if he could bring his computer for the night. I didnt see anything wrong with that, so said yeah.. well, I ended up playing on his Apple II for most of the night, and the next day went to the PX and bought a Commodore 64, they had just been released and I think I spent somewhere in the area of $350 for it. While in Germany, I acquired the tape drive, and two 1541 floppies. Fast forward two years, and I came back stateside... first thing I did was buy a C=128, and 2 1581's... got a 300 baud modem and promptly set up a BBS in the Tampa Bay area. At that time, most of the Commodore BBS's were hosted and run by kids for the purpose of pirating games, I had the first adult oriented BBS in the area that I am aware of. (By adult, I mean adult type conversations... at that time, computer porn consisted of ASCII images that you could print out on a dot matrix printer.) I never really got into programming, was mainly interested in the hardware. I hacked up several interfaces for my Commodores, including an RS232 with parts from radio shack so I could use non Commodore modems. Before I finally graduated to PC's (IBM 4.77Mhz Clone, built with hand picked components) I had destroyed several C=64's, and a couple 128's.
PhotonWrangler
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The Commodore 64 was a breakthrough product in it's time. Built-in color, sound and even a BASIC interpreter. That was my big break from having to borrow cpu time on the college's PDP-11s and mainframe to run stuff.
My first computer was a C=64. It's all been downhill from there! :drunk:
My first computer was a C=64. It's all been downhill from there! :drunk:
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