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gwEm

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Re: Wall of Marshalls
« Reply #15 on: September 23, 2013, 08:03:01 PM »
My brother had two or three versions of the Sinclair Spectrum, and I think he had a secondhand Commodore 64 for a while.  Or maybe it was an Amiga.

Apart from reading long pages of code to him so he could type in various "pokes" for games, I never got involved.  I never have been into computer/video games at all, too many other things to stupidly waste my time on.....

If I have to choose, I prefer Atari to guitar.. Luckily I don't have to ;)

It's all about my music though, I was never a massive gamer, even when I was young!
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Re: Wall of Marshalls
« Reply #16 on: September 23, 2013, 08:04:35 PM »
I had an Amiga 500 for a couple of years and friends of mine had Commodore 64s and Vic 20s.  Now if you remember a Vic 20 then you are pretty old.  It was the lame cheap version of the C-64 with only a quarter of the memory and really rubbish graphics.  I also have very strong memories of those bloody tape drives

We had a Vic 20 - my Dad got it as a Christmas present, it would have probably been about 30 years ago! I remember the excitement on Christmas Day when he opened it. We spent the rest of the day playing 'Rat Race' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_Rat_Race and 'Blitz' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz_(video_game).

Although limited I did love having the Vic 20 and spent many a happy hour playing on it!

There's something quite charming about the old home computers. They feel rewarding to use
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Re: Wall of Marshalls
« Reply #17 on: September 23, 2013, 08:21:08 PM »
first computer I remember having was a texas instruments one where you had to copy in all the code from a book, then start again because you made a mistake.  then maybe play a game for a few minutes.  then put it all back in its special briefcase