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My grandmother had the foresight in the 80s to buy me a C64 while I was still in elementary school. She was the only one in the family who would've done it.

I'm grateful I was able to show off a very simplistic 'choose your own adventure' type program to her before she died. It was mostly ASCII art, more of a proof of concept and less than 10 screens, but still.




Well done granny. I lacked your imagination and thumped in loads of machine code listings from a series of books to do basic graphics and sounds. Mind you I did discover about attack/decay/sustain/release and a few other things so all good.

I still have my C64. It now has a USB interface and I don't use it much these days sigh

I suspect you made your granny very proud and quite rightly so. A couple of little girls call me grandad these days ...




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