My father did not want to give me an Atari or Odyssey, he heard somewhere that a computer would be useful, although he (and nobody at the time) knew very well why. Lucky me it was the electronics hobbyist and eventually led me in that way.
Prológica CP 200
This was my first 8-bit computer was a PC based line Sinclair Z80 processor with 16KB of RAM. I won on my 12th birthday (in 1984). It was exciting out of the box and turn the unit on TV, but ...
When I called the TV and saw a flashing prompt on the screen and the machine does not answer my question, Oh Deception! I was very disappointed, but it was also discovered that dai that a computer needed to be useful to be programmed, and it is (or was?) fun.
The CP 200 was not very interesting in itself, you type in BASIC programs and each key has a command called BASIC (type, P to PRINT). I remember a game where the challenge was to land a plane (the symbol>) at an airport dirty green squares, another more interesting game was a maze in low resolution in which the goal was to escape a dinosaur, believe it was exciting .
that time, the programs were saved and loaded into the system through a tape cassate. There was a whole vocabulary on it (azimuth was a term) and also several Mandingo to load the program occurred without errors. The sound of the tape was a sharp sound very similar to the sound of modems that after we started using to access the BBS.
http://www.mci.org.br/micro/prologica/cp200.html
Prológica CP 300
was the first computer "serious" I had, because he was the brother CP 500's newest (and less powerful as well). Basically an online copy of the TRS-80 American. I got was this micro solid fundamentals in BASIC programming (or burned my brain for programming) and also where I gave my first steps in the assembly of Z-80.
CP 300 came with 64 KB of RAM and 16 KB of ROM, unfortunately no hard disk was not allowed to run professional applications of the CP 500. Moreover, the CP 500 at this time was the computer of the dreams of many people.
miss two games bring me to this day: Daemon Dancing, which was a puppet who danced to the rhythm of music (all programmable) and Robot Attack, a maze game that had voice spoke ... ROBOT ATTACK! at first, incredible for that time.
Another game like the others was Penetrator, a game that went just to see again, and in equal enjoyment with the arrival of the Nemesis MSX.
http://www.mci.org.br/micro/prologica/cp300.html
Prológica CP 400
My first PC which displayed colors! Just remember that computer more as a gaming platform. I keep missing the games on cartridge and the analog joystick, which allowed me to run a super 3D flight simulator (well, only on lines, but whatever.) Another game that really liked was the Popeye, like a Super Mario at the time.
CP 400 I was learned in the assembly of 6809, a bid that was very, very bizarre, that is totally different from the Z-80. But basically it was just a game to me.
http://www.mci.org.br/micro/prologica/cp400.html
Sharp Bit Hot
cry a little tear ... This was my last micro 8a and also best of them all. It was a fantastic machine, in which I deeply know the details of hardware and programming, but also had fun with the games. It was equipped with a Z-80 processor, 64 MB RAM 32 MB of ROM and 16KB of VRAM more video processor or the IBM PC had this.
My high point at that time was to write (in the assembly of Z-80) a program that samples the audio input and kept the bits, to be played again on the speaker. Difficult to have that level of knowledge of machine I had with the MSX, I disassemble the ROM ALL OF MSX to know how it worked.
Unfortunately I could not one thing with the MSX: develop a substitute for FORTH BASIC MSX, since that time (1990) I started to lose interest in computers and programming, and I got excited about making music and have electronic band.
MSX games were very nice, I scored were: Zanac, Nemesis, Knighmare, Batman, Knight Lore, Metal Gear, I know there are so many of Konami, not to mention that the audio portion of the MSX was very interesting and somehow motivated me to go to music.
With Hot Bit I might have a unit Floppy 3 1 / 2 and run the operating system CP / M. It was also learned that the MSX with a programming language more polished, called Turbo Pascal.
Somehow, I can understand the nostalgia and MSX user meetings that take place in Brazil today, but honestly, I'm much more my MacBook and all that we currently have in computing. The 80 were only experiment with computer nerd.
http://www.mci.org.br/micro/outros/hotbit.html
