I got myself this Space Invaders T-Shirt and I love it! I'm posing here with my first computer, the Atari 800XL I got from my parents in 1984! :-)
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Hahaha... awesome! Remember getting really excited playing Space Invaders on a friend's Atari 😍🛸
We used to stop off at the local fish and chip shop on the way home and spend our coins (20c) on the likes of Space Invaders, Galaga and I forget the rest.
Some years later, I got an old Commodore Vic 20, but soon upgraded to a C64.
wow, that is so funny - I remember those games. Back then, we played them in the bars. Even earlier, there were those Pong games. There was one game console I owned that went belly-up, I cannot remember the name anymore. It had great graphics, but then the wanted to expand it with a computer module, and that caused them to fail big time and go bankrupt.
EDIT UPDATE:
found it - it was ColecoVision
and on it, aside from Donkey Kong, I was playing Zaxxon
I had the same computer! Always felt a little cheated because my friends all had Commodore 64s but I guess the Atari was on sale at Sears that Christmas. Is that a tape cassette drive with it? I remember my grandfather got me a French language course that would play from the tapes and then load a program to administer an exam. I think I was 8 years old.
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What you see on the photos is the floppy disk drive, however, I started with a tape recorder and it was a pain! I was also about to get the C64 first but the Atari could display up to 256 colors, the C64 had only 16.
I didn't know that about the colours! Of course I wasn't doing 'digital art' back then, just programming for fun. I think my first game on it was Jupiter Landing.
I was doing digital art / animation and programming machine code (not assembly) on the C64. I spent so many weekends and nights on that thing... when I should have been doing school studies. I guess it worked out, because even when I finished school, none of the educational institutions had started teaching what I had already learnt.
I was so nerdy with programming, that my sisters could whip me at most games we had.
Here is my game PhotonTrace (inspirad by the Tron movie) - I tested it today with my daughter on the 8-bit Atari emulator!
A-ha! I thought there was something Tron inspired with this. Did you ever release it?
Assembler is machine code, only you use short mnemonics (symbolic machine code) for the processor commands instead of hex numbers.
Here is part of one of my Assembler codes for a game. I didn't have a printer so I had to write it down all by hand. On the screen I only got 40 x 30 characters which was too little to see the big picture for debugging. I actually started to write the code on paper before I typed it in.
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This is amazing!
Here's some music for you to listen while you play space invaders. =)
Mi Sex - Computer Games 1979
Listening to this makes the whole experience even worse! :-)
👍👍👌
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