These are the only tools I've really used for the last 30 years of professional development. Before that I was mostly on the Borland C and Turbo Assembler train. Before that it was Spectrum Basic lol

Amazing how many have actually survived!

Huh, I never knew about the copyright discrepancy in Italy. I just researched it since pirated software was available at every corner convenience store in many mainland European countries in the 80s and 90s and I always wondered why. I would stock up on every vacation, at first piling up cassettes for home computers, then later multi-cart console games.

Here's what GPT said: "The key shift was the EC Council Directive of 14 May 1991 (91/250/EEC) on the legal protection of computer programs. This forced member states to explicitly protect software as literary works under copyright. Implementation varied (Italy did it in 1992, Spain in 1993, etc.), but by the mid-1990s the patchwork was gone."

This is neat :)

Now we need one for the Star LC-10

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cDX3rVuW-7U/maxresdefault.jpg

Settlers was awesome. Is it better than Civ II? Hard to say.

This was an amazing piece of debugging and interesting to find that the official copy protection patches, and the ones from GOG, are both faulty and ruin the game.

Amiga was amazing. So many great memories of playing games on it. Too many hours on Supercars II. Probably didn't use an Amiga until 1988, IIRC. Before that it was just the ST.

Fantastic article, superb research, great to see the board revived too. Worth checking out the YouTube vid linked in the comments also.

A good friend of mine bumped into him at a party about 25 years ago and he said he'd being doing math work for the NSA.

That demo was amazing, thank you.