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Adventures in old 80s computers.
vtsteam:
no,no, bread boxes keep the mice out....
I was eating Ritz crackers when I wrote that other last night.....
S. Heslop:
I'll have to use breadboard somewhere in this project. Christ...
I was up all night last night reading about assembly programming. People who can program in assembly are often very proud of themselves, and act like they're gods gift to computer science. But from what I've read (and to be fair I'd only read the beginnings) it seems amazingly straight forwards. It's probably hell to write a program of any serious length in it, but for coding things like C64 demos it seems fairly intuitive. Especially compared to the more ethereal stuff in high level languages like polymorphism.
Reading about it has made me kind of want to skip the whole project and just head straight to covering my desk with all the junk to try out making some simple classic effects. Although it's probably better to leave that till i've got a better setup.
I remembered I had this in the box of my uncle's old stuff too.
It's mostly devoted to C64 BASIC but has a nice rundown of the assembly op codes and the memory map in the back.
PekkaNF:
--- Quote from: S. Heslop on August 04, 2014, 04:00:51 PM ---I remembered I had this in the box of my uncle's old stuff too.
It's mostly devoted to C64 BASIC but has a nice rundown of the assembly op codes and the memory map in the back.
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That was my book t learn programming (and english!)! I probably tested every page and wrote every code it had.
Pekka
DavidA:
S Heslop,
...But from what I've read (and to be fair I'd only read the beginnings) it seems amazingly straight forwards.
Hmmm, it's not quite as easy as that. Assembler is very unforgiving of your errors.
You do need to read a but further.
But it is very interesting. and lightning fast once you have it de-bugged.
Dave.
Bluechip:
--- Quote from: DavidA on August 05, 2014, 03:31:19 AM ---
Hmmm, it's not quite as easy as that. Assembler is very unforgiving of your errors.
Dave.
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Oh boy ! have to agree with that. :thumbup:
Remarkable just how many times you can check errant code without seeing what eventually turns out to be so blindingly obvious you begin to doubt your sanity ... :bang: :bang:
Dave [ another ] Ex BBC 'B' & Nascom owner
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