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Well check out VTL for the Altair 680. BASIC-like in 768 bytes. https://youtu.be/GJ02QLHRVOw https://youtu.be/GJ02QLHRVOw It's interesting because instead of
by jhallenworld 4y ago
Well check out VTL for the Altair 680. BASIC-like in 768 bytes.
https://youtu.be/GJ02QLHRVOw https://youtu.be/GJ02QLHRVOw
It's interesting because instead of GOTO, you assigned the target line number to a special variable. Instead of IF, you multiplied the result of a test with the line number and assigned the result to the special variable. An assignment of 0 is ignored.
- ddingus 4y agoI just saw this a day or two ago and thought it was really neat! Seems to me, at most one would maybe need another special system variable or two for peek and poke essentially and one could work with memory directly for bigger, more complex programs. And it may do that. I did not examine all the special assignments in detail. But yeah! Small and way more useful than it may appear.