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by zoenolan 1631 days ago
My family got a BBC B when I was about 6 or 7. I programmed a few bits and pieces in BASIC. Even got my parents to buy me Input magazine [1], which I only partly read.

What really got me started was seeing the Bapaug demo [2] when I got an Atari ST. That motivated me to play around with BASIC again. Which was frustratingly slow. I switched over to 68000. Teaching myself from some sample code. I created my first commercial program [3] a few years later with a couple of friends. 30 years ago at the back end of this year.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_(magazine)

[2] https://demozoo.org/productions/65653/

[3] https://demozoo.org/productions/78840/