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NOSTALGIC COMPUTER PAST
By Chris Syntichakis
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From the childhood I had mania about
electronics, my dad is marine
engineer and was involved with
electronics projects. Around 80s I
started to read about computers on
various electronics magazines, I
found them interested as there were
a lot of projects that 'married'
electronics and computers.
That time I got a used ZX81 (had a
faulty PSU, but I managed to fix
it..), but later stopped working.
Then I decided to upgrade from the
ZX81 to a better system...
I got a Plus/4 from Italy, my
biggest mistake that time, there was
no software (I was living in Greece)
except some educational programs,
some text adventures (mainly for
C16) and some crappy games like
'Street Olympics'. The only good
thing about this machine was the
BASIC, I liked type-ins from
magazines and I started to make my
own, like mathematics-related (e.g.
matrix solvers) or electronics
related (like resistor codes)..
sometimes, I tried to convert BASIC
programs from type-ins for other
machines (but in vain...)
After around one year I upgraded to
a C64, as this has more software
(and warez) heh good ol' times we
had nice copy parties there.
But my C64 did not last so long, as
I fell in love with the Amiga... A
friend of mine received an Amiga
1000. I remember I went back to
home, after visited my friend and
saw the 'boing demo', the poor C64
was like a piece of crap in
comparison to the Amiga.. That was
my last time with 8bit C='s. Amiga
was expensive, so I got an Atari ST.
Some years passed, without my C64...
I changed a lot of machines, an 286
running Xenix, Archimedes 3000/5000,
Amiga 500/600/1200, Sun
SPARCstation, SGI O2, but I always
had the 'nostalgia' of the 8bit
machines esp. the C64.
Every time I got a new
system/pda/mobile I was wondering if
there is a C64 emulator for this, If
there was C64 emulator I was trying
to find the sources of the emulators
(vice or frodo).
I still remember I got a copy of the
Solaris developing package from my
work and had to hack the system ID
of my Sun, in order to 'cheat' the
'licence manager', as I wanted to
compile the *latest* version of Vice
C64 for my Sun LX.
I only managed to buy a real C64,
after I got the c-one. I though that
machine would provide me with real
C= dose, but that time was under
heavy development and a big
disappointment for me.
I got 'stuck' with the Commodore
machines, I cannot say I don't enjoy
my other systems too (including my
Spectrums), perhaps because they
were my first advanced computer.
For the story, the zx81 is still
alive! It was for years into a
cupboard, as I though it was
completely dead. The problem was the
RF modulator, the signal is too weak
to be handled with 'modern' TV sets.
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