Reply #13: Atari !!!

[hunter]

My favorite machine ever.

I've still got my 600XL modded to 64K (factory 16K), my 800XL modified to 256K, dozens of program cartridges, and a drive like yours I modded for "high speed" (such as it was). Alas that drive's not working anymore because the secondhand eproms I used have failed.

Action! was a delicious programming language, very much like Pascal. Since I pretty much knew 6502 machine code by heart, and my way around the Atari ROMs, I could do most anything the machines were physically capable of.

I still play with atari stuff, but not so much on the actual hardware anymore. Most everything I did with the machine lives in emulation on my Linux desktop. If I feel like playing PENGO or something it's just a few clicks away from here.