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That's one maxed out RAM configuration. Back in my day, we had 4k RAM, about 3500 bytes usable from BASIC, and that was enough, unless you were rich enough to have a 3k memory expansion cartridge. But really, if you need that extra 3k, you're just not writing code efficiently enough, right.
Neat, but crashed when I tried to load Frogger

  THI5 1Z A WAY-K00L BBOARDZ D00DZ!!1!

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    ...B1FF ... B1FF ?!

   ... ... B1FF B1FF B1FF BB0ARDZ!1

   B1FF ... ... ... B1FF!

  D0EZ THI5 MEAN MY BR0THER CAN KEEP HIZ OWN Vic-20 NOW??!?!????!!!


   ... BIFF B1FF B1FF D00DZ!!1!
Young me remembers fondly poking and peeking system memory locations to see what happens. The manual, if I remember right, had a table of memory locations to system settings. Things like font and background colors.

I made a “punch out like” boxing game in basic where the background color blocks was the opponent and the font lines was your character via poking memory locations.

It was slow but I was just a kid at the time. It definitely told me what I wanted to do for a living at an early age.

In LibGDX, that is great!
So everything is web-based today I guess? But why? Is this about programming language? Packaging?
Delivery, and not wanting to target each platform individually.

The Chrome OS Platform (given the browser engines left) is the most successful WORA since UNCOL was introduced as idea in 1958.

I would rather that we kept Web for documents and everything else native with networking protocols.

This isn't new however, Applets, ActiveX, Silverlight, Flash, NaCL and PNaCL, asm.js, plugins,...

Running LibGDX on the browser has a certain Applets revenge feeling to it.

Nostalgia overload.

I got a Commodore/PLUS 4 - With almost no games (just Saboteur, Jet Set Willy and Booty), and my father taught me how to program in Basic 3.5 - and before I was 10 i was making trainers with 7501 assembly learned almost by trial and error. I knew back then what I wanted to do in life and followed that path to the fullest extent.

Ah, the VIC-20, my actual first computer. By making the PETSCII birds fly how I chose, I learned the elements of composing and modifying software.

You can play with an emulation of my other early computer, the TI-99/4A, at https://js99er.net

Like many others who commented, this was my first computer. I received it as a hand-me-down from a french aunt. Manuals were all in French. The C64 just came out and was all the rage. Couldn't find games to save my life. All I had left was to learn how to program. Still doing that 40 years later.
That brings back so many memories! The Vic was our first computer. 45ish years later, here I am, still writing code. Thanks for making that and posting it here.