> It had Locomotive Basic which was quite a bit more advanced than C-64 BASIC. Haha, that's a really low bar! Commodore really cheaped out with C64 BASIC. I w

> It had Locomotive Basic which was quite a bit more advanced than C-64 BASIC. Haha, that's a really low bar! Commodore really cheaped out with C64 BASIC. I wonder if that also was ultimately advantageous for C64, forcing kids to learn 6502/6510 machine language early to get anything interesting done. Thus a lot of kids could create their own games and whatnot in assembler, with way higher performance than what was possible with BASIC at the time.