G'day from Portland (Victoria), Australia!

[Lucky Phil]

Hey there, everyone! My name is Phil, and I've only just discovered this site... how could I have missed it? It's very cool, indeed.

 

I'd describe myself as a long-standing retro computing tragic - though I haven't ever really committed myself enough to learn much beyond BASIC and a very light smattering of assembly language (6502/6510 and Z80). I intend to change that soon... and the Commander X16 project looks like the catalyst to make things happen!

 

Growing up in South Australia, I owned a Commodore 64 (riotously popular over here, as elsewhere) and a VZ300 (if you're Australian, Dick Smith Electronics will definitely ring a bell here); many of my happiest memories were formed programming, and playing games on, these machines (particularly the Commodore 64, with its formidable tech-specs). In the latter part of my youth I'd finally scraped together enough money to migrate to an Amiga 600, also a wonderful Commodore machine in the evolutionary sense. Over the past few years, I've managed to pick up quite a few other retro systems - some really showing their age but others relatively fresh - and most of these have unfortunately remained boxed, rather than taking pride of place in my 'computer room' (this has never really moved past the conceptual stage).

 

I hope to become an active participant in the site and a committed supporter of the project. As older systems - and the folk who actually remember them - become harder to find, the world needs the Commander X16 to remind us all of just how much fun computing in yesteryear really was.... Cheers!