World of Commodore 2016
I&#x27;m only 29 and have memorable experiences playing with my father&#x27;s C64. I consider myself lucky that he introduced me to C64+BASIC at an early age. I will never forget it.<p>I think our family already owned a Gateway 2000 PC (66&#x2F;90MHz, Win 95) by then, but I actually liked the C64 more. Second favorite was the Atari 1040ST, the PC came last.<p>The C64 is a crucial element that got me into programming&#x2F;CPUs&#x2F;Hardware. I went from BASIC to QBasic, then to VisualBasic 3, then 5. After that I got my own PC my father bought me Visual Basic 6, students edition. In retrospective, this has to be the best investment of 120DM (Deutsche Mark) ever made. It fueled my interest even more. I was finally able to write my own &#x27;real&#x27; Windows programs. I suddenly had access to everything, from DFU dialups, window managment, Browsers (ActiveX!). It even introduced me to 2D&#x2F;3D graphics because you can use DirectX&#x2F;DirectDraw directly. All thanks to the Windows API and Visual Basic.<p>It took a long time until I finally got into Linux and C++, but I never regret that I was introduced to BASIC first, and was taught that GOTO is not evil.<p>PS: If you have kids and want to introduce them to programming, give them access to Blitz BASIC!