#8bitforlife

This was the only software I could get for my #Atari at that time. Nothing more was available here. That means every famous game or program there was at the time, I didn’t have/play it. Now I know all of them, of course, but I couldn’t experience them at the right time. This also meant that every game, program or utility I needed, I made it on my own. Every single line of code is now gone, lost forever. It was a hell of a time, anyway. #Atari65XE #8bitForLife #Memories #Remembrance https://www.instagram.com/p/BylFf46H4NQ/?igshid=1252f63hzdwvj

This was the only software I could get for my #Atari at that time. Nothing more was available here. That means every famous game or program there was at the time, I didn’t have/play it. Now I know all of them, of course, but I couldn’t experience them at the right time. This also meant that every game, program or utility I needed, I made it on my own. Every single line of code is now gone, lost forever. It was a hell of a time, anyway. #Atari65XE #8bitForLife #Memories #Remembrance https://www.instagram.com/p/BylFWQcnZUs/?igshid=ux5pqeva7y73

Continuing my walk through memory lane, this was the only upgrade I could afford at the time for my beloved #Atari65XE . The CX-77 touch tablet. I designed some games with this. I vaguely remember having to program some assembly routines to get the data into BASIC, so I could instruct the ANTIC chip to put the graphics together with my program logic. It was far from the best tablet, but I didn’t care. We really loved what we did back then. #memorylane #8bitForLife #remembrance https://www.instagram.com/p/ByiZ2AOHG5J/?igshid=11ev84rr6k3a0

Throwback to the first computer I ever owned. The one that started me down on this long and winding path I call a career, this path I call life. 6502B CPU running at 1,79 MHz, 64KB of RAM, and yes, a cassette tape recorder. Less than a speck of dust in today’s standards, and yet it was the world to me. Back then when it all mattered, back then when the world was different. Got it in ‘87, unable to afford an Apple ][. Never regretted it. 32 years later, the only computer I ever miss. #Atari65XE #8bitForLife #Nostalgia #Sysadmin #Infosec #Developer #SliceOfLife #Memories https://www.instagram.com/p/ByabWj-HQBh/?igshid=12r21mw5gb1vw