That is so awesome. I wish I’d been around when that was a valuable skill, when programming was actually cool.
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HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Suddenly trying to write small programs in assembler on my Commodore 64 doesn’t seem so bad. I mean, I’m still a disgrace to my species, but I’m not struggling.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
btaf45@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Why wouldn’t you use Basic for that?
buttnugget@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Why wouldn’t your grandmother be a bicycle?
Klear@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Wheel transplants are expensive.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
BASIC 2.0 is limited and I am trying some demo effects.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
from the depths of my memory, once you got a complex enough BASIC project you were doing enough PEEKs and POKEs to just be writing assembly anyway
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Sure, mostly to make up for the shortcomings of BASIC 2.0. You could use a bunch of different approaches for easier programming, like cartridges with BASIC extensions or other utilities. The C64 BASIC for example had no specific audio or graphics commands. I just do this stuff out of nostalgia. For a few hours I’m a kid again, carefree, curious, amazed. Then I snap out of it and I’m back in WWIII, homeless encampments, and my failing body.