As someone who coveted the Apple //c in high school, I absolutely loved this.
Does anyone remember Beagle Bros software?
Does anyone remember Beagle Bros software?
I had //e. The only thing I coveted more than a //c was a Laser 128EX/2. (OK and maybe a IIGS and a Mac…)
Well I started on a TRS-80 but quickly became obsessed when I got my hands on a II plus and then an IIe. I never got to use a //c but remember a friend got one. It was as close to portable as you could get then and I remember wanting one really badly.
Beagle Bros...oh yes. I so loved their software. Those guys had such a cool, retro aesthetic and the code was so much fun. Like Monty Python, but for BASIC. Such great times. I wanted a Mac so bad though, but there was no way to afford that, even with two jobs.
Programming my //c in assembly led me 3 years later to my first programming job (I was a staff artist at a Children's book publisher) -- programming the Mac in 68K assembler! So I ended up with a Mac anyway, if only at work.
The //c was such a sweet little machine!
One was a "pop corn texts" where the letters would explode up to form a title page.
The other would spin disk a, then spin disk b , faster and faster like a train... I feared for the drives (it was my moms work computer), but it was fun. (We had a //e with the double drives)
I guess some have tried to interview the guys behind that company, but they're not talking .