Awesome! And a great professional CV opener!Urs wrote:The first money I earned in my life was for a sequencer that was used in a couple of games on C64. I was 14.Sendy wrote:Not as cool as a SID
Do you remember / care to tell which? Or would that become embarrassing? Like, for example, the alias used by that composer whose name sounds like a founder of some religious cult, who did the track for literally every other C=64 game, but would not risk association with frowned-upon titles such as 
I remember building a little *very* crude 8 bit sampler for the C=64 at around that age myself. Or, rather, bullying older, geekier friends (who obviously could make much more sense of electronics and such things) to help me build one. It cost no more than €25 in parts, and I had to adjust level and DC offset with a screwdriver. The good old days when digital still felt like vintage analog.
And that silly cassette tape recorder system... (of course floppy disks were beyond my budget back in the days). I remember having fun when 'saving' a bunch of C=64 games into a sampling keyboard, years later - as that was loading much quicker and was much more reliable. I would put Paradroid on C3, for example.
There was even a dedicated radio show, which weekly broadcasted such audio recordings of bits and bytes a a very late hour when hardly anybody was listening to the radio anyway. They were mainly simple basic programs (think hangman in ascii) made by hobby users, sent in via mail for distribution over-the-air to fellow users in next weeks' episode. A whole hour of screeching digital noise every week. I routinely recorded it, like many others, on analog tape (yes, with a lot of saturation) and then spent the Sunday morning trying each program one by one - if they loaded at all. Yes, youngsters, we already had free wireless data networks in the 80s way before bluetooth and wifi!! 
Still, it keeps amazing me how incredibly far technology has come already over the last decades especially. 
