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I remember getting out all these C64/BASIC programming books from the library when I was a kid. They were filled with cartoon robots and such if I remember corr
by olliej 5y ago
I remember getting out all these C64/BASIC programming books from the library when I was a kid. They were filled with cartoon robots and such if I remember correctly.
I remember typing a "lot" (I was somewhere in the 5-7 range at that point) of code from those (and other) books into our C64. I don't recall understanding most/any of what I wrote, but I think it got me sufficiently interested to keep me going until I got to an age that I actually understood what I was doing.
[update: I think I found them, they were by usborne and inexplicably are now free :D : https://usborne.com/us/books/computer-and-coding-books https://usborne.com/us/books/computer-and-coding-books]
- rzzzt 5y agoThey had some notes around the graphics examples saying that differences in syntax may prevent the code from being parsed successfully, and sure enough, none of those commands were available in the V2 BASIC dialect the C64 had. Even the manual of the machine only included a single hi-res mode example in an appendix, and dedicated one chapter to sprite handling, but that was it. Yes, I am still angry.