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~the_bebop_cowboy

Can you have nostalgia for things from before you were born?

I love old computers. Some from my childhood but many older than that. I'm often spinning up emulators or browsing eBay, window shopping for C64s or Ataris.

Sometimes I wish I had been born 10 or 20 years ago so I could have experienced the 8-bit machines in their prime. My first experience programming was in BASIC, maybe that's not uncommon for some but this was in the late 90's for me. On a Windows 95 machine, diving into DOS to run QBasic. Ha! I guess I was a retro computer enthusiast even when I started.

In recent years, I've been satisfying my retro computing urges with fantasy consoles. The TIC-80 is my recent favorite. It's meant for making games, but i like to consider that you could use it almost any way you like. Word processor, drawing, music. If you haven't heard of it before, I hope you enjoy.

http://tic80.com/

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~inquiry wrote:

Huh... never heard of "fantasy consoles". But then I've never been in the gaming loop beyond ancient loves of "Ms. Pacman" and "Galaga" <swoon>.