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It's been a long time since I programmed in BASIC, but I have gone memories of it. My very first computer was a Commodore Vic20, whose User's Manual was essent
by ziotom78 3y ago
It's been a long time since I programmed in BASIC, but I have gone memories of it.
My very first computer was a Commodore Vic20, whose User's Manual was essentially a BASIC manual. One of the very first programs I learned to wrote drew a simple bird on the screen made by characters and made its wings flap. I was mesmerised.
Boy, how much I enjoyed that manual!
Edit: bids -> bird
- kleiba 3y agoI started out on the C64, but that manual, too, received much love from me. I read it until it pretty much fell apart. Oh, well, the spiral binding might also have had something to do with that ;-)
- cbm-vic-20 3y agoThe VIC-20 Programmers Reference was also a great next step, to get you into assembly/machine language. There wasn't a good freely-available assembler, so you get to become the assembler itself, POKEing instructions into memory. https://archive.org/details/commodore-vic-20-manual-del-usuario https://archive.org/details/commodore-vic-20-manual-del-usua... https://archive.org/details/VIC-20ProgrammersReferenceGuide1stEdition6thPrinti https://archive.org/details/VIC-20ProgrammersReferenceGuide1...