Comment on The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles

Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Oh my beloved C64! I made my first “real” games with it, my buddies were artistic and made the music, sprites, animations, etc. I programmed the tools to make them!

The worst aspect of the C64 was that the hardware was a mostly undocumented mystery zone. As an early teen, I had the C64 programmer’s reference manual checked out of our library for 2 years!!! Doing any kind of advanced graphics meat PEEKing and POKEing random addresses and registers to see what would happen. A nightmare!

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