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Had similar experience with our Commodore 128 (even had a spiral-bound brick of a manual too). Between that and just the old LIST command, I was able to poke a
by soylentcola 4y ago
Had similar experience with our Commodore 128 (even had a spiral-bound brick of a manual too). Between that and just the old LIST command, I was able to poke around in loads of games and programs and see how they worked (or, say, give myself a million gold in Telengard).
I did grasp GOSUB fairly easily but I never understood why I could load some programs from disk, but when I typed LIST, I would just see a single line with SYS (and a number). Didn't realize until later that this was just a way to call machine language code that had been loaded directly into memory.
How the hell was I supposed to learn from that??
- timbit42 4y agoWell, the C128 had a built-in ML monitor which could disassemble assembly.
- soylentcola 4y agoI think I stumbled across this, but I was in grade school and without another spiral-bound reference to make sense of it, it just looked like gibberish to me. I was still a little way off from learning the benefits of "structured programming" for easier debugging and tweaking, so long piles of BASIC was my limit at the time.
- timbit42 4y agoIt's in the manual from page 371 to 380.