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Re:30 years later, QBasic is still the best by Annatar on Thursday May 05, 2016 @05:46PM (#11639886)
Ah, Carrier Command... I'm going to have to play that again. Powered on my Amiga 500 on my desk yesterday after almost two years, and to my amazement the battery kept the correct time.

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Re:30 years later, QBasic is still the best by PavlovsCat on Friday May 06, 2016 @04:27PM (#11646508)
My A4000T is also still working fine (last time I checked), but of course the HD died. One of these days I will get a CF or even SSD in there, maybe get a nice mouse and indulge myself to bits. http://aminet.net/ is still here and nice things still get made, after all :)

What miss most is using tools like ExoticRipper to grab music modules from memory after reset, to then play them at leisure and examine/change them with a tracker. Or playing around with the "Action Replay" modules I-III, that blew my mind too. Making a pause toggle by connect the mass of the case to a specific pin of the extension slot, haha, I was so scared doing it and so shocked it actually worked. I may not have learned so much I ended up still using (except today I prefer Renoise to all other DAW), but I sure learned a lot about learning, that is, wildly poking around to figure things out.

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