Ask HN: Did you do more programming on your C64 than on your Amiga?

3 amichail 3 8/6/2025, 5:00:46 PM

While the Amiga was more advanced in many ways, programming it was also more difficult — especially if you cared about coding a GUI for your app/game.

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KingOfCoders · 6h ago

1. No 2. For me its Amiga (most), Amstrad CPC, C64 for the amount of 8bit coding I did.

I found the Amiga easiest to write for, 68k is a nice machine dialect and the hardware was easy to use (blitter, copper). On the C64 you needed to use much more tricks to make something great (but in either case didn't use any OS, wrote a small OS/UI for my Amstrad CPC with a text UI even).

JohnFen · 2h ago

I never had the opportunity to use an Amiga.

PaulHoule · 6h ago

For me my ‘C64’ was a TRS-80 Color Computer (with a brief detour with the CoCo 3) and my ‘Amiga’ was a 286 PC compatible. Either way it was live to code, code to live.

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Ask HN: Did you do more programming on your C64 than on your Amiga?

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