Tim Locke 🇨🇦♥🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs" class="u-url mention">@<span>thomasfuchs</span></a></span> I don&#39;t think there are any photos of my computers but I started with a <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/VIC20" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VIC20</span></a> in 1982, then a <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/C64" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>C64</span></a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Amiga</span></a> 500 in late 1988, Amiga 2000HD, Amiga 3000T, then a self-built PC with an <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ASUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ASUS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/TX97" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TX97</span></a> motherboard with a <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Pentium" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pentium</span></a> 66 overclocked to 75 MHz and <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Win95" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Win95</span></a>. The <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/A3000T" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>A3000T</span></a> had an <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/A2386" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>A2386</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Bridgeboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bridgeboard</span></a> which I installed <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Slackware" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Slackware</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linux</span></a> on but not sure whether that counts as a separate computer.</p><p>I learned <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BASIC</span></a> on the VIC-20 including creating custom character sets and wrote some simple games with a character moving around the screen.</p><p>On the C64 I started writing an adventure game. I had it loading a bitmap and custom font and had a character generator and store working. I had some surface maps and some city and dungeon maps you could walk into and explore. It would be nice to have that disk today.</p>