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TIS-100 made me wish I could have programmed in the 80s. I doubt it means I'm a good programmer, but god is it fun.
by Joof 11y ago
TIS-100 made me wish I could have programmed in the 80s. I doubt it means I'm a good programmer, but god is it fun.
- ksherlock 11y agoIt's not to late. For a few bucks you can buy an Apple II from Goodwill. For 10-100x a few bucks you can buy one off eBay. (There are also plenty of emulators which are more practical but lack that 80s feeling.)
- jackhack 11y agoFinding the hardware may be the easy part. You'll also need a DOS boot disk, and a LISA compiler. I fired up my Apple ][ recently and was amazed it still worked -- those floppy disks are amazingly durable. 30+ years of sitting in a footlocker and yet they're still readable. Amazing! There is no substitute for the charm of a flickering greenscreen monitor, the whirr of a 5.25" disc drive, 40 columns of text, a clacky keyboard, and the smell of dust burning off the power supply. Yet I found myself asking "how did I get anything done with such primitive machines?"
- Joof 11y agoWell I hack on an original gameboy; I think that counts :p.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoAs someone who (poorly) programmed their c64 in the 80s, I do not miss those days at all.
- lfowles 11y agoBingo, the best part of these games (TIS100 and HRF in particular) is having a well chosen instruction set and glossing over the other annoying parts of working this close to the hardware. I want the puzzle to be figuring out how to make do with only 2 jmp variants, not remembering to use a different instruction to access memory below address 0x100