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I had a C64 but no software, so I had to make my own by typing out the code from these books by hand. I love them though be warned that the programs are much si

I had a C64 but no software, so I had to make my own by typing out the code from these books by hand. I love them though be warned that the programs are much simpler than the covers would lead one to believe. When I was done, I realized I knew how to code basic. No one had to explain loops or goto or if after you type it in a few times. I will add that OCR is not going to help you because a lot of the code was PEEK and POKE. I suppose your basic interpreter could also emulate the C64 memory space.

tonyarkles 7y ago
Yup. I grew up in a solidly blue collar household that didn’t have much money to spare. We got a Vic-20 at a garage sale, and I learned how to program by borrowing these books from the public library. Eventually we upgraded to an XT that came with GWBasic and I was blown away by how much more I could do (640kB of RAM! I can do anything!)
jandrese 7y ago
Presumably you would do these projects today on an emulator like VICE? http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/ http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/