I was a master of my Commodore 64 way more than I am of my iPhone

[tosbourn]

http://tosbourn.com/mastering-tools

[vmorgulis]

I miss my Amstrad CPC 464 and Atari ST too.

The stack of softwares is too deep nowadays to control everything excepting in the world of microcontrollers.

[duncan_bayne → vmorgulis]

Indeed. Which is why recreational programming on Amstrads is still fun :)

Check out http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/ and https://github.com/Octoate/cpc-sdcc-rom for some good starting points.

Amstrads can still be had on eBay for reasonable money, and one can gradually buy enough hardware to make a fun system. I just obtained a floppy drive interface that I plan to use to connect an SD-card floppy simulator to my 464 ... fun times :)

[vmorgulis → duncan_bayne]

This is great.

I've seen a modern OS for 6128 but I can't find the link.

There is this kind of spirit in the Forth language. I try to build something around it.

[duncan_bayne → vmorgulis]

You're probably thinking of SymbOS?

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/SymbOS

Screenshot here:

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/imgs/7/73/Symbos21cpc.gif

[duncan_bayne → vmorgulis]

Oh, and if you're into Forth, check out:

http://emucation.com/dl-rom-20511-group-6310.htm

... it's a Forth implementation for the CPC. I haven't tried it myself though.

[tosbourn → duncan_bayne]

Nice! I am tempted to pick up some of the old Amiga hardware I used to own and get playing again.

[duncan_bayne → tosbourn]

You should! I imagine it'd be cheaper than a nice modern gaming rig, and quite a lot more fun (IMO). Developing for those old systems is also a joy.