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e6d7b8 No.13776389

Any anons here grew up with a Spectrum? Or any other home computer for that matter. I'm really curious about what that was like.

7f3e9c No.13776408

File: e565b5da27bfa11⋯.jpg (94.63 KB, 523x720, 523:720, autismus.jpg)

No, but I am on the spectrum.


e6d7b8 No.13776414

>>13776408

So am I, it helped me skip math classes during high school.


261793 No.13776499

File: a2df4d6d4909c87⋯.png (1.29 MB, 1000x830, 100:83, ClipboardImage.png)

>>13776389

Didn't have a Speccy but i did have one of these bad boys.

Microcomputers were a fucking golden age.


b00c14 No.13777835

>>13776389

My first system was a c64. It was rad.


7614ec No.13777998

File: 5a87c27ad76e6df⋯.jpg (12.57 KB, 256x192, 4:3, images.jpg)

File: ec390a19614c642⋯.jpg (51.34 KB, 922x346, 461:173, ti994-sidecars.jpg)

File: 947ad6d914b48d8⋯.jpg (316.46 KB, 700x1011, 700:1011, ti_cosby_large.jpg)

I had a TI-994A when I was really young. Too young to really use the "computer" aspect of it, though. By the time I was old enough to start thinking about writing my own programs and recording them on the cassette tape - home computers like that were long dead and it wasn't long before we got a 386DX PC. All the office and word processing software was just shit I pushed aside while digging in the "game shoebox" to get to the game cartridges.

The daisy chain attachments could be pretty crazy - like a horizontal version of the "Sega Stack". All we had was the voice synthesizer, which was pretty cool. Had a reading game that would talk to me. Blew my little 7 year old brain.

There wasn't shit for software for the machine, and most of the games we had were cheap knockoffs of more popular titles like Parsec and Munchman. Hunt the Wompus and Q-Bert were pretty fun, and I did have a copy of Donkey Kong from back when Nintendo was still only publishing third party titles in the west.

Still kind of mad there is no TI-Tan with huge knockers, a texan accent, and a cowboy hat. Maybe even a little chibi Bill Cosby following her around trying to fondle her ass.

Can't draw for shit though, and even if I could, nobody gives enough of a fuck about the TI to make her a thing.


49bc9a No.13778053

color computer 2 and 3; trash-80 family from radioshack. then Amiga500. Friend had a C64 then an Atari ST.

It was fucking glorious. Glory days of computing. Fully documented hardware. BBSes. Door games. Kids learning BASIC then assembly. That day you learn to convert a sprite to a sequence of MOV instructions. Then draw it anywhere using memory address offset in a CPU register. Then you execute the code for your sprite.

Less power than a ATMega32, but good times man. No internet so people read computer magazines. They were actually cool with good articles. Things had manuals. They were more informative than modern textbooks, going over the basics of the software and then the theory. Flight sim manuals were little mini history books.

Shit is fucked now. GLSL is about the last refuge for interesting coding. Everything is getting locked down and pozed.




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