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Was my C64 different from yours? When I was a kid, I was doing exactly what you describe: throwing together BASIC programs from the prompt, run them, saving and
by alfiopuglisi 3y ago
Was my C64 different from yours? When I was a kid, I was doing exactly what you describe: throwing together BASIC programs from the prompt, run them, saving and loading them from disk (actually the cassette). The manual even had a BASIC crash course. When later I found the OS assembly source, most of it was the BASIC interpreter.
- 1000100_1000101 3y agoYup. Pet, VIC-20, C-64, C-128 all booted directly into BASIC, which was in the ROM. Flip power switch, wait 2 seconds for the READY prompt. 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" 20 GOTO 10 RUN I'm pretty sure that started an era of programmers, curious would else you could do than just type LOAD "*",8,1