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Or my favorite quote from the article

"I am going to have a complete and total mental breakdown. I am going to be institutionalized. They are going to put me in a padded room and I am going to write... code on the walls with my own feces," it said.

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[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day 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 2 points 17 hours ago

That is so awesome. I wish I'd been around when that was a valuable skill, when programming was actually cool.

[-] btaf45@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Why wouldn't you use Basic for that?

[-] buttnugget@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Why wouldn’t your grandmother be a bicycle?

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Wheel transplants are expensive.

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

BASIC 2.0 is limited and I am trying some demo effects.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours 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 2 points 17 hours 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.

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