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Oh yeah, quite an insight into the mind of me as a teenager. One thing I didn't mention because it's a tad embarrassing is that the original little character was based on that awful ET game that sold nothing on the Atari 2600. If you squint a bit you can still see the original inspiration.

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When you said you got rid of your Microbee stuff, does that mean some collector found and preserved your code years later? That's pretty dang awesome.

I had a bunch of old Amstrad games I wrote in the 80s that I'll probably never see again. Silly little text adventures mainly, also learned binary by poking character maps... a bit sad they're almost certainly lost forever except for dwindling memories in the haze of childhood, super cool to see some of this stuff being preserved for cultural value if anything.

No, nobody kept my stuff, the game was published commercially so I lost my other programs, including an awesome graphing program that could print your graphs to a dot matrix printer. It is a bit sad.

I didn't know the Amstrad used character graphics, they were uncommon in Australia.

I'm also in Australia, most of my mates had C64 or Amiga, but my parents (possibly by being English) got the Amstrad. I only ever came across one other kid with an Amstrad (his family had the 464 tape variant). I agree it was rare here.

Next time I visit my folks I'll check out and see if they have any of my old disks. I doubt anything survived this long but your post has planted a seed of nostalgia.

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