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Definitely try as an older person!

I have similar experiences and sentiments myself. One difference is I was into Apple and Atari computers, but that does not seem to matter all that much.

As a younger person, I did demos and explored the tech plenty without actually building finished applications and or games.

Learned a ton! And had major league fun. Great times filled with bits of understanding I draw on all the time.

And YES! Good grief, the pixels are dancing in ways nobody would have predicted back then.

When I hop on the machines today I find them simpler than I remember and fun to program.