I wrote a Mandelbrot set generator for Commodore 64 using Commodore BASIC. Then switched to using FORTH because the cartridge-based FORTH I had was much much faster than Commodore BASIC. Unfortunately (or fortunately) that code went away when I donated the C64 to the local Commodore users group ... Paddy Duncan wrote:
If this is a ‘show your age’ competition, my mate made the fractals on his 286, and I had to write in assembler on my Atari to view them...nya nya.....
Is was great though, unlike today when any idiot can pretend to know how work a computer....if I had a time machine I would castrate BGÂ’s dad...
Then we'd all be using CP/M-86 on our IBM PCs ... ;-)
*From:* fractint-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:fractint-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] *On Behalf Of *JackOfTradeZ@comcast.net *Sent:* 05 July 2009 05:14 *To:* fractint@mailman.xmission.com *Subject:* Re: [Fractint] Compuserve
Compuserve was my first online adventure when I got my 1st PC, a screamin-demon pentium-75 with an incredible 16 Meg RAM and a totally awesome 1 Gig HD, in 1995, complete with windows 3.11 (ouch!). I loved it, especially dialing in and hearing that wet-dream voice say "welcome to wincim"! I liked the graphics and programming forums and the chats; this is also where I got into fractals and fractint. After AOL took over and totally bastardized it (I always HATED AOL!) I quit; from then on I had my own ISP and server and didnt need it anymore anyway. All good things come to an end, I have fond memories and nostalgia. RIP Compuserve!
-- David gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community