[willvarfar]

Jaw droppingly awesome :)

Brings up a strong nostalgia from me. Around that time computers were becoming mainstream and available where I was in the UK, and I grew up acquiring old cast-off computers and tinkering. For me there was an 'assembly language masterclass' book (I was a beginner and this was my first serious tech book and I had to sink or swim) that went into a lot of 32-bit programming for the 386 (which I never had) but got me far enough along. It was that and computer magazines which were really programming magazines, which were a thing and quite popular back then.

Remember fondly how transformative it was to move from Basic to a copy of Turbo Pascal 6 and it's asm keyword that I got passed on a floppy disk in the playground.

Ah that was the time when it was just obvious that you could entertain yourself on a computer by creating things, however small, instead of just consuming them.

By the time I got computer games, I was thinking about them as programs not games and I got my entertainment by getting into the modding scene.