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[gizz72]

Greetings,

Back in the 80's, when I started to learn programming I was fascinated what programmings laguages were. My first love was Basic. I've learned BASIC thru a summer course. We used an Apple ][e. Short but sweet times. After that summer course, I have no computer back then. I bought a book, IIRC 'How to program on TRS-80 Color computer'. I kept that book for a long time and I was thinking I might have use for this(at the time I have no idea what a TRS-80 was). Then I came across a book 'Basic Primer'. I have to practice a computer from my dad's office to play around. An old XT! There I started to practice simple BASIC programs. Unfortunately, There's no way I can save my work. I'm forbidden to use office disks.
Then came C64c, treid basic there, Even tried C language on it. I just forgot what it was. Then my Amiga. Hmmm, Amiga Basic was crude, not much fun.
I fell in love with AMOS, then Amos Pro... I had quite fun there. The problem with me is that when I started a program, I tend not to finish it.
Now I hardly have time for them anymore. Well maybe someday. I still have Ami blitz, java, C++ to learn. :-(
Like the old saying: Time flies when you having FUN. :-)

Regards,

Gizz

[bonkers]

Well, thats what the demoscene is all about you know , programming totaly pointless stuff for no higher purpose than fun. And amigas are great for this, probably the last computer where there is no laws and restrictions on how to do things. Just freedom to have fun.

[MontrealCL]

A nice platform nowadays for demos is the Gameboy Advance. There's a free compiler + library which enables to write your own GBA demos/games for free! I believe the hardware is a tad bit better than the earlier AMIGA's (except for the resolution).