After the initial few months my dad lost interest in it but I stuck at it because I was doing Basic programming at school so it was a great help there. The next stage was machine code and a few utilities were made, one was a routine that drew text characters onto a Pmode 4 screen, it was real slow especially when the screen scolled-up. I still remember drawing those characters out on graph paper and converting the patterns to bytes
It went in the loft for many years until a guy in work gave me a tube of 512KBx8 SRAMS in the late '90s, one of which became the basis of a crude expansion for the cart slot, I wish I still had that - it was a veroboard with a 6821 on it, LEDs for port status, and an IDC header to access the extra ports. The underside was a nest of link wires all formed with 90 degree bends. Anyways, the D32 went back in the loft again for a few years, then I started buying stuff from eBay, a few game & utility carts, and an I/O expansion made by Maplin.
I think I will always have the D32, every once in a while it gets unpacked, fired up, played with
Brian
