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I heard of one program for the C-64 with two drives. You load the code into the drives, and it would copy a disk without the C-64 being on.
by spc476 4y ago
I heard of one program for the C-64 with two drives. You load the code into the drives, and it would copy a disk without the C-64 being on.
- ecpottinger 4y agoNot only could you that, you could also have program running on the disk drive send a text file to the printer. so you could print without the computer if you could write the small 6502 program you needed to install into the disk drive.
- rbanffy 4y agoWouldn't it be cool if our modern computers, with their couple dozen smaller computers pretending they aren't there, could do these things in a supported and portable way? Imagine I want to select data from a Parquet file and I could load a program into the storage device to only return me the entities I want instead of reading data into main memory and have my CPU do that?
- classichasclass 4y agoPretty sure Fast Hack'em could do this.