how I got into programming at 8!
This was the computer I learned how to write my first adventure game, Castle of Death, and got published in Rainbow Magazine when I was 12.
whoa didn't realize MAME (via MESS) was my access to emulating the CoCo3 I grew up with...
if you want to get really fancy, the cool kids are now getting into hardware emulation (via FPGAs)! see @3:36