Hello from the USA!
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 7:56 am
Hello Hello, Everyone! Nice to meet you all!
I've gotten into coding fairly recently in earnest, but I've always been on the fringes on it all my life. I'm a little too young to remember it clearly, but my first home computer was my dad's old Vic-20. It was eventually replaced when I was 6 with a brand new (for the time anyway lol ) Tandy 1000 SX, which I played the ever loving bejeezums out of. So much of my childhood had me using command prompts and I loved my PC-DOS. But, boy howdy, when my parents got me my first windows 95 machine (an objectively terrible Packard Bell) that when I started doing little bits of scripting here and there. Basic robot controls in QBasic, late 90s webpage design in HTML 4 and the odd Hello World program in C++.
In the last few months, I've been really immersing myself into 6502 Assembly, since that CPU has been in so many devices I used as a kid (my old NES, my dad's VIC-20 and my friend's Apple II). It's just fun finding all the old ways people back in the day used to make software for games and programs.
I stumbled on Keith via his YouTube channel and found his tutorials insanely helpful. I've been learning quickly and just seeing all the things I can do with a CPU that was designed all the way back in 1974 is just mind boggling! I've been following along with his tutorials and have been trying things out slowly but surely as I learn, even if my enthusiasm gets the better of me at times.
I'm the guy that's been posting code blocks in your youtube comments section, trying out things you've been showing in the videos. Looking back, my first code block looks kinda silly. Drawing a smiley face using the only two opcodes I knew at the time. Load to Accumulator (LDA) and Store Accumulator to Memory (STA). I swear, I've gotten better since then. haha
After I feel like I'm in a good place with 6502 Assembly, I'm hoping to branch off and learn the Z80 to make software for my old TI-83 from college. And after that, maybe learning what the old Intel 8088 can do so I can make software for my ancient Tandy 1000.
I'm not sure, I'm just kinda playing this all by ear and having fun more than anything. I'm just happy that my wife is so understanding of my silly hobbies. lol
Expect to see me in Show & Tell a lot, since I love doing a bunch of little projects at once and crave constructive feedback to help make them better.
I've gotten into coding fairly recently in earnest, but I've always been on the fringes on it all my life. I'm a little too young to remember it clearly, but my first home computer was my dad's old Vic-20. It was eventually replaced when I was 6 with a brand new (for the time anyway lol ) Tandy 1000 SX, which I played the ever loving bejeezums out of. So much of my childhood had me using command prompts and I loved my PC-DOS. But, boy howdy, when my parents got me my first windows 95 machine (an objectively terrible Packard Bell) that when I started doing little bits of scripting here and there. Basic robot controls in QBasic, late 90s webpage design in HTML 4 and the odd Hello World program in C++.
In the last few months, I've been really immersing myself into 6502 Assembly, since that CPU has been in so many devices I used as a kid (my old NES, my dad's VIC-20 and my friend's Apple II). It's just fun finding all the old ways people back in the day used to make software for games and programs.
I stumbled on Keith via his YouTube channel and found his tutorials insanely helpful. I've been learning quickly and just seeing all the things I can do with a CPU that was designed all the way back in 1974 is just mind boggling! I've been following along with his tutorials and have been trying things out slowly but surely as I learn, even if my enthusiasm gets the better of me at times.
I'm the guy that's been posting code blocks in your youtube comments section, trying out things you've been showing in the videos. Looking back, my first code block looks kinda silly. Drawing a smiley face using the only two opcodes I knew at the time. Load to Accumulator (LDA) and Store Accumulator to Memory (STA). I swear, I've gotten better since then. haha
After I feel like I'm in a good place with 6502 Assembly, I'm hoping to branch off and learn the Z80 to make software for my old TI-83 from college. And after that, maybe learning what the old Intel 8088 can do so I can make software for my ancient Tandy 1000.
I'm not sure, I'm just kinda playing this all by ear and having fun more than anything. I'm just happy that my wife is so understanding of my silly hobbies. lol
Expect to see me in Show & Tell a lot, since I love doing a bunch of little projects at once and crave constructive feedback to help make them better.