Post #3390716
2026-06-08 04:57 UTC
@cabel@social.panic.com As someone who has transcribed many 8-bit BASIC programs from one platform to another, it is tragic how a screen full of POKEs is correctly interpreted as C64. Every other platform had an actual BASIC that you could do things with!
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@tsturm@famichiki.jp 2026-06-08 05:01
@TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place @cabel@social.panic.com They all had problems... the same thing on the Spectrum would have been 50 lines of DATA statements with a poke loop and a call into machine code. 😅