If you haven’t had to adjust extended memory in dos to run a game have you even really lived?

I’d put in the cassette to load Zaxxon onto my C64, got eat lunch, watch TV, have a snack, and come back to play.

C64 was a beast with disc drive I briefly used the cassette player and used mostly the discs (I don’t even remember the name or size of them they were huge very thin discs). I played lots of games but the one I played most was “Pirates” or it was what we called it. I remember there were no in game map so my father draw to a semi-transparent paper from an atlas we have. And marked all the cities in the game so it was very easy to navigate in the game. My father loved that game too and we played together with him, me and my brother. God I miss him sometimes and wish that he has access some of the things I have now…

I had a cassette-powered Spectrum too xD

I remember writing the lamest word-guessing game in Basic when I was like 7 or 8.

Unfortunately, due to financial constraints, after that my next computer was an actual PC, with Pentium 133 CPU, when I was 16 I think.

And I already got it with a CD drive, and a 14440 bps dial up modem, and all those fancy hi tech conveniences.