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> Imagine learning a new language, platform, with no Google or StackOverflow. To be fair, 6502 is a small, simple language. I learned 6502 back when I was 11-1
by 67726e 10y ago
> Imagine learning a new language, platform, with no Google or StackOverflow.
To be fair, 6502 is a small, simple language. I learned 6502 back when I was 11-12 with little more than some .txt files, a lot of time, and a question or two answered by some very RTFM type folks. That one was not too hard overall, despite being my first language. I'd never ask someone to learn some new fancy language and framework without the internet, however.
- KSS42 10y agoAll things considered, there were a lot of resources out there but you had to do some leg work. I subscribed to Compute! There were also a fair number of machine language programming books by the likes of Richard Mansfield and Jim Butterfield. (Maybe it helped that I was in Toronto and there was a lot interest in Commodore computers)
- orionblastar 10y agoMy mother had a friend who just had her daughter die. I volunteered to help her clean up her house. I had a Commodore 64 and was learning how to program on it. She was going to throw away the Compute and Compute Gazette magazines, but I asked if I could have them instead. Changed my life reading them and learning how the games worked and changing them. Using joystick routines to make a menu in Basic to load programs off the floppy disk and execute the address for the sys command in the menu so the user doesn't have to do it. It was so long ago I've forgotten most of it.