All about the newbie ;-)...

[Stephane Richard]

Hi everyone,

Wow, my commodore history starts at the very beginning of commodore (well before that, but this is my commodore history ;-) ). my first commodore computer was the Commodore PET 2001.  I was given a KIM-1 but never quite used it proficiently, just toyed with it for a while.  After that I got every commodore computer that came out since.  Pet 4032, SuperPet, CBM-2, Vic 20, C=64, SX-64, C=16, C=128, and most Amigas until the A4000.  needless to say, I've always loved commodore computers. ;-).

today, I still have a C=64 with 1541 Floppy drive and a 1702 monitor along with a few 100 games. :-).  I sure wish a whole lot I had a C=128 setup.  One day, I'll find something :-).  For now, Winvice is my friend.

Although I wasn't 1/2 bad at drawing and things.  My true passion in programming, since the Vic-20, was sound and music.  My first program was a small but usable drum machine on the Vic-20.  For those of you that wonder, I did have a 16Kb memory expander ;-).  So I had a bit of room to store some drum patterns.  basically, I would use a string value to convert characters to drum instruments (well different frequency white noise, not actual drum sounds lol but it did give a rythm). Then the C=64 arrive and I was in heaven with those "back then" high quality sounds ;-).    After I finally, after a while, memorized the 64 pokes to play with sounds, along comes the C=128 with it's Sound, Envelope, and other instructions to make my life easy. ;-) Murphy's law.

Anyway, commodore machines, especially the 128 have always been a passion of mine. So I'm very glad to have found this place.  

Hoping to talk to all of you real soon. :-).

[xlar54]

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