[weinzierl]

Glad to hear you had a similar experience. For me the 90s PC hardware era was somewhat of a let-down. On the home-computer graphics and sound were first class citizens. They were integral to the experience and even though you had to do it in assembly I found it logical and easy. Moreover, when you got it to work, it worked - always and everywhere. After all every device of a particular model was the same.

On the PC everything was hard and clunky. x86 assembly still doesn't make much sense to me and suffering through all the VGA adapter chaos (bitplanes, yuk) has left lasting damage;-)

Luckily in the 90s there was Linux and I started a studying at the university where we had workstations. Our SGI Indies and O2s were more to my liking.

At least this is how I made it through the 90s without losing the fun of programming. And then came the Internet and www and everything was more exciting then ever!