My First Commodore Basic Programme in About 30 Years
I like watching videos on YouTube. Well, who doesn't? 
I especially like watching videos concerning old and obsolete hardware. Retro is kind of a hype right now. But that's OK, there are a whole generation of kids out there who have never seen one line of BASIC code and never sat in front of a C64 waiting for that damn tape to load already! But that is what we did when I was young.
There are some projects out there trying to recreate that '80s feeling, but the one I find most interesting was created by The 8-Bit Guy, mostly because I know that when he sets his mind to something he most likely will get a working result. (As you can see in this old posting I also supported him when he kickstarted his Planet X3 project.) So now he is trying to build a computer that is almost but not entirely unlike the C64/C128. It will be called Commander X16.
I will spare you the technical details, but it sounds very interesting. At least to me. And about two days ago he released the first version of an emulator which can be used to play around with. So naturally I wrote a little programme for it. You can find it in the Extended Article below. It works, in a way, but is far from perfect. But for something I whipped up in three hours or so without any plan or concept or documentation...
You can just copy&paste it into the emulator and run it. Have fun.
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I especially like watching videos concerning old and obsolete hardware. Retro is kind of a hype right now. But that's OK, there are a whole generation of kids out there who have never seen one line of BASIC code and never sat in front of a C64 waiting for that damn tape to load already! But that is what we did when I was young.There are some projects out there trying to recreate that '80s feeling, but the one I find most interesting was created by The 8-Bit Guy, mostly because I know that when he sets his mind to something he most likely will get a working result. (As you can see in this old posting I also supported him when he kickstarted his Planet X3 project.) So now he is trying to build a computer that is almost but not entirely unlike the C64/C128. It will be called Commander X16.
I will spare you the technical details, but it sounds very interesting. At least to me. And about two days ago he released the first version of an emulator which can be used to play around with. So naturally I wrote a little programme for it. You can find it in the Extended Article below. It works, in a way, but is far from perfect. But for something I whipped up in three hours or so without any plan or concept or documentation...
You can just copy&paste it into the emulator and run it. Have fun.
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