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Hi everyone,

I recently bought a copy of PB and just wanted to say how much I am looking forward to getting to grips with the language. I have been coding as a hobbyist since the days of the 48K Spectrum on which I learned a bit of BASIC before doing some Z80 assembler.

I am hoping to eventually develop a game as a homage to some of the Speccy's classics I played as a teenager - Fairlight, Batman, Head Over Heels, etc - I absolutely loved those isometric platformer \ puzzle games. Are there any programmers of the 8-Bit era here on the boards?

No doubt I will have plenty of questions for you all in the coming weeks, months, etc.....

Thanks for reading,

Most guys here are 30+, so they started on something predating the SSE3 PCs.

I started with an abacus before moving up to a slide rule .......

The Th!ng wrote:Hi everyone,

I recently bought a copy of PB and just wanted to say how much I am looking forward to getting to grips with the language. I have been coding as a hobbyist since the days of the 48K Spectrum on which I learned a bit of BASIC before doing some Z80 assembler.

Welcome. Most of us have followed similar paths. Check out this thread...
http://purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=9855

Fewer than 20% started with Dos + Windows. Almost everybody else was with either z80 or 6502.

Hi The Th!ng

Welcome as i`ve said many times on this forum "Probably the best language & Best Community in the world ", you will be very seldom if ever be stuck with any problem that some enlighten GURU here cant explain and or provide source code to your problem.

@ Tenaja fancy leaving the Amiga out !!! even our leader was an Amiga man

Seriously Great Language (evolving all the time) Great Community

Zebuddi.

Hi there and welcome.

BUT, Spectrum. Seriously?

(Couldn't resist, sorry )

The Th!ng wrote:Hi everyone,

Thanks for reading,

Hello from another ZX fans!!

You made a good choice.

I still write programs for the ZX Spectrum and PureBasic me often in this work, in the process of prototyping.

And as I am for 8 years I have written dozens of utilities PureBasis for data collection on their ZX Spectrum. I can not imagine what I would do without PureBasic!!

Welcome Th!ng,

my first computer was a ZX81 and i also owned the ZX Spectrum plus 48k and Atari 800 XL from the 8-Bit area. Good old isometric Speccy games, those where the days!

Ofc. the whole Amiga/ST area later was also truely awesome.

Vic20 -> ZX Spectrum -> Atari 400 / 800 / 600XL -> Amiga -> PC (Windows)

30 years computing:
VC20 -> C64 -> Atari 1040ST -> PC (Windows 3.11 to 7) -> PC (Linux)

30 years programming:
Commodore Basic -> 6502 Assembler -> GFA Basic -> Turbo Pascal -> Visual Basic -> VB.Net -> C# / Python / PureBasic (on Linux)