What processor mode did you start in?

[Love4Boobies]

Come to think of it, I've started in vm8086

[inx]

>_> Does a 6502 count as a mode? =p

[JackScott]

Yes, because it's the 6502 compatibility mode of a 65C816 processor.

[qw]

>_> Does a 6502 count as a mode? =p

I started on a Commodore 64, first in BASIC of course, later in assembly language. I had no assembler so I had to calculate all instructions by hand and POKE them somewhere in memory... No surprise I never got further than "Hello world"!

[inx]

I started on a Commodore 64 ... I had no assembler so I had to calculate all instructions by hand and POKE them somewhere in memory...

Hardcore way to learn. lol I had a 128, so I at least had the in-ROM ML monitor. Like an assembler with no symbols, just had to deal your own dealings with addresses.

6502 compatibility mode of a 65C816 processor

Sure, but I was too poor for a ][GS or a SuperCPU. lol Also, IIRC, it's not so much a mode as the fact that 6502 code ran as long as the address registers were initialized properly.
Kind of like the 286 compatibility of 386 pmode.

[chibicitiberiu]

I started in 8086 with Turbo Pascal, but i forgot all the pascal i learned then... About 3 - 4 years ago I started learning C in Borland C 3.0 (on an old win95 machine at school)