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Arghh, I learnt Z80 assembler and Turbo Pascal in the mid 80s without ever seeing any books about either. Not sure how, picked up bits and pieces from computer
by yesenadam 9y ago
Arghh, I learnt Z80 assembler and Turbo Pascal in the mid 80s without ever seeing any books about either. Not sure how, picked up bits and pieces from computer magazines in libraries.
A few years ago in a 2nd hand bookstore I finally laid eyes on Programming the Z80, which I'd heard about but never seen, and I was like "OMG, I would've given a leg to have had that in 1985!"
Life with LibGen (and StackExchange) is so vastly different to my childhood isolation from the world's knowledge. I'm constantly profoundly grateful. But wish I'd had that access back then! Although I can't imagine it.
- Joeboy 9y agoYeah, I'm also not exactly sure how I picked up Z80 asm. I remember leaning heavily on the list of opcodes in the back of my ZX Spectrum manual, but it was literally just a table of opcodes and corresponding numbers so presumably I learned roughly how to use them from some other source. Owning Programming the Z80 was also one of my unattainable teenage goals, along with owning a disk drive.