> I learned to program on an Atari ST when I was a kid and I still feel really sad that the platform reached a dead end and died back in the early 90s.
Funny, I also picked up an ST when I was a kid, but in the mid 90s when it was already considered dead :D I'm actually very grateful I got that instead of a windows machine that had reached dominance at the time. All of the other kids thought windowspc==computer and had no exposure to Basic or anything. I found the Atari a lot more fun, creative and broadening of what "computer" meant to a kid at the time by it's mere differentiation.
What languages did you use on the ST? I cut my teeth on STOS, GFA BASIC and DevPac 2. Learning assembly language, which I was trying to use to write games, proved to be very useful when I later worked on embedded systems. Though I never managed to produce a properly playable game in assembler.
Funny, I also picked up an ST when I was a kid, but in the mid 90s when it was already considered dead :D I'm actually very grateful I got that instead of a windows machine that had reached dominance at the time. All of the other kids thought windowspc==computer and had no exposure to Basic or anything. I found the Atari a lot more fun, creative and broadening of what "computer" meant to a kid at the time by it's mere differentiation.
That little green desktop will always have a place in my heart. https://www.dwitter.net/d/19166 https://www.dwitter.net/d/21735