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This! Still have fond memories of reverse-engineering the screen-buffer encoding on my Amstrad CPC 464 by poking values directly into the buffer and watching wh
by japanuspus 8y ago
This! Still have fond memories of reverse-engineering the screen-buffer encoding on my Amstrad CPC 464 by poking values directly into the buffer and watching what happened on the display (i.e. my TV).
Somehow got hold of the Z80 datasheet for opcodes - but working out the relative jumps with pen an paper was a slow process. Upgraded to Amiga around the time when I realized that assemblers had to be a thing...
- 3chelon 8y agoYes, I was coding in hand-coded hex machine language for a couple of years before I had access to an assembler. These days, when and IDE drops into assembly and all my 20-something colleagues duck for cover, I rub my hands together in glee...