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I wish as a kid I had more resources to learn assembly back when I had a Commodore 64. I effectively maxed out what I could do with the machine; I had made it
by wvenable 6y ago
I wish as a kid I had more resources to learn assembly back when I had a Commodore 64. I effectively maxed out what I could do with the machine; I had made it as far as redefining the character set to make games but I still working in BASIC.
But I never had the tools or instructions to do assembly -- it wasn't until I got a PC and had BBS resources that I did any advanced programming.
- cgh 6y agoI had a copy of the Programmer’s Reference Guide and I read The Transactor magazine, both of which featured lots of low-level stuff. And I grew up in a place that commonly had one to two metres of snow on the ground, so I was inside a lot staring at that blue-on-blue screen.
- protomyth 6y agoTruthfully, the brand specific magazines (e.g. Antic for Atari) were the best resources to learn to program. I learned 6502 out of a magazine then got some real manuals.