2022/4/21: Atari XEGS: Popeye, Bug Hunt

[BlasteroidAli]

Wow, a 1200 xl user. That is so impressive. I had heard about them but I never saw one out in the UK.

[VideoGameCritic]

Thanks for that story RD! The 1200XL was my first computer as well.

[RDReynolds]

Thanks for that story RD! The 1200XL was my first computer as well.

You may be the only other person I've ever known who had that machine! It's a rarity for sure.

[BlasteroidAli]

My first PC was a Sinclair Spectrum 48k. Colour clash was the order of the day though it has a lot of really good games. A sort of triumph over adversity machine.
Programming in Sinclair basic was a real pain. It used keywords, so in a way it was like Scratch. So they code blocks sort of worked.
My second pc was an Atari 800xl.

[Cafeman]

Thanks for that story RD! The 1200XL was my first computer as well.

You may be the only other person I've ever known who had that machine! It's a rarity for sure.

1200XL was my first computer, too.

[ASalvaro]

wow lots of former Atari 1200xl owners..back in 1985 i got my 1st Atari 600xl but then shortly after upgraded to the Atari 800xl because i kept buying games that needed 48k lol...GREAT memories of Atari BBS'S back then
i'll never forget the 1st time i got access to my first Atari Warez BBS with my 300 baud modem i could not believe what i was seeing..a list of games that i can get free without going to the store...1st game i downloaded was Buck Rogers..it was only 16k but it took over a half hour to download

[RDReynolds]

Oh yeah, BBS'es!!! I remember thinking how incredibly cool I was when I upgraded to a 1200 baud, then, somehow, a 9600 baud modem a couple years later.

Anytime people complain about load times today I also note, "You don't know anything about load times until you've loaded a game from a CASSETTE TAPE."