Greeting from a german CPC fan

[nurgle]

Hi all,

I am a 30 year old Schneider CPC user (sold as Amstrad CPC in the rest of the world) and have been dragged in here by one of the board admins.

My first contact with computers and BASIC programming was on a friends Sinclair ZX-81, a relatives TI 99/4a and a neighbours Atari 600 XL. The Amstrad CPC 6128 was my first own computer and I used it a lot. Mostly to play games, but also for fun programming. Lot's of BASIC, some Assembler (I still love Z80) and very little Turbo PASCAL.

When I got my first Amiga 500 (a used one, I still went to school and had no money), I lost interest in the CPC, but still kept it. I later upgraded to a used Amiga 3000 (which I still have) and switched to a PC somewhere around 1995 or 96 due to the lack of new Amigas. I soon discovered Linux with which I am stuck now.

Some years ago I found out about a german CPC meeting. I went there and was baffled by the sheer number of vintage computer users gathering in one place and doing all kinds of weird stuff with their machines. Since then I became more interested in CPC stuff again and started to switch on my first computer more often again.

I usually hang around at my favorite newsgroup news://comp.sys.amstrad.8bit where I found the pointer to this board. I normally prever newgroups to web forums, but as said before I was dragged in here. ;-)

So that's pretty much it. One more thing: If you are a Linux user you can beta test my Linux port of Kevin Tacker's wonderful CPC Emulator Arnold. Well, it's not really my port, but I did all the nice GUI stuff. ;-) Anyway, here it is: http://arnold.berlios.de/

 

[Erik]

Welcome!

Welcome!

Hello and Welcome to the VC Forum!

I am glad you got dragged over here. I think you'll find that the boards are a great compliment to newsgroups for discussing vintage computer topics.

We'd love to hear more about your machines and what you're doing with them!

Erik

 

[sonic2000gr]

Hi there nurgle,

Interesting, my second computer was an Amstrad CPC 464 ( Several friends of mine had the 6128) I was still in high school back then. The Schneider versions were also sold in Greece! In fact my brother has a Schneider 464 in storage (in working condition) and he also had a Schneider Euro PC and a Euro PC II for quite a few years. I used the Euro PC II extensively myself as well. ( the external hard disk on the Euro PC sounded like a plane taking off every time it started!)

I used my CPC for BASIC programming as well - though I admit its BASIC was not of my taste (fast but lacking in programming features like SUBS, local variables etc which were present in TI Extended BASIC) but I really liked learning Z-80 assembly on it and writting a few RSX commands.

I've used Arnold in the past. I have not tried the Linux version yet (cause at this point in time I don't have a Linux installation) but will do next time I install it. Arnold for Windows worked great for me.


Cheers and welcome aboard.

Manolis

 

[CP/M User]

Re: Greeting from a german CPC fan

"nurgle" wrote in message:

Hi Nurgle!, don't know how I came to miss you message.

> I am a 30 year old Schneider CPC user
> (sold as Amstrad CPC in the rest of the
> world) and have been dragged in here
> by one of the board admins.

Well there were a few suttle variations of the Amstrad
CPC, AWA marketed them here in Australia. But
basically, we call them Amstrads!

> My first contact with computers and BASIC
> programming was on a friends Sinclair ZX-81, a
> relatives TI 99/4a and a neighbours Atari 600 XL.
> The Amstrad CPC 6128 was my first own computer
> and I used it a lot. Mostly to play games, but also
> for fun programming. Lot's of BASIC, some
> Assembler (I still love Z80) and very little Turbo
> PASCAL.

Heh! I think I know more Turbo Pascal than BASIC,
the beauty of it comes from using it on various
platforms & few books which give the basics of it.

There is also a tutorial (downloadable from FTP)
based on our version of TP 3, the only thing which
wouldn't work is the last excersise which deals
with using MSDOS interrupts under MSDOS.

> When I got my first Amiga 500 (a used one, I
> still went to school and had no money), I lost
> interest in the CPC, but still kept it. I later
> upgraded to a used Amiga 3000 (which I still
> have) and switched to a PC somewhere around
> 1995 or 96 due to the lack of new Amigas. I
> soon discovered Linux with which I am stuck
> now.

Oh dear! Some Amstrad emulators (for Linux)
would hopefully get you back stuck onto them.

> Some years ago I found out about a german
> CPC meeting. I went there and was baffled by
> the sheer number of vintage computer users
> gathering in one place and doing all kinds of
> weird stuff with their machines. Since then I
> became more interested in CPC stuff again
> and started to switch on my first computer
> more often again.

heh!

> I usually hang around at my favorite newsgroup
> news://comp.sys.amstrad.8bit where I found
> the pointer to this board. I normally prever
> newgroups to web forums, but as said before
> I was dragged in here. ;-)

Oh dear! :-(

> So that's pretty much it. One more thing: If you
> are a Linux user you can beta test my Linux
> port of Kevin Tacker's wonderful CPC Emulator
> Arnold. Well, it's not really my port, but I did
> all the nice GUI stuff. ;-) Anyway, here it is:
> http://arnold.berlios.de/

Heh! Great to see you're already caught on!

Cheers.

 

[CP/M User]

Re: Welcome!

Re: Welcome!

"Erik" wrote in message:

Hi Erik,

> I am glad you got dragged over here.
> I think you'll find that the boards are a
> great compliment to newsgroups for
> discussing vintage computer topics.

Sounds like he was pushed over!

Don't think we should be pushing people
over!

> We'd love to hear more about your
> machines and what you're doing with
> them!

Amstrads in particular are known for doing
all sorts of tasks!

Cheers.

 

[CP/M User]

"sonic2000gr" wrote in message:

Hi Manolis

> I used my CPC for BASIC programming
> as well - though I admit its BASIC was
> not of my taste (fast but lacking in
> programming features like SUBS, local
> variables etc which were present in TI
> Extended BASIC) but I really liked
> learning Z-80 assembly on it and
> writting a few RSX commands.

Interesting you should say that. Must admit
there's nothing you can do about providing
BASIC with local variables to Locomotive
BASIC (Amstrad's BASIC), but there was
a program I had somewhere which tried
provided things like SUBs & Procedures to
BASIC (in the form of RSXs).

> I've used Arnold in the past. I have not
> tried the Linux version yet (cause at
> this point in time I don't have a Linux
> installation) but will do next time I install
> it. Arnold for Windows worked great for
> me.

Heh! I'm kinda stuck using DOS emulators
like Caprice, CPE, CPCEMU & NO$CPC.
Each sort of have an advantage over one
another!

Cheers.