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The separate architecture put it over the edge for me, personally. I’m barely competent at C (especially back then) and may have been able to just manage had it
by sgarland 2y ago
The separate architecture put it over the edge for me, personally. I’m barely competent at C (especially back then) and may have been able to just manage had it been on native arch.
It did force me to get decent with bitshifts, which is always a useful skill. I found this [0] article about doing so with the 68000, and adapted it.
[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210225221011/https://www.atarimagazines.com/st-log/issue24/69_1_ASSEMBLY_LINE.php https://web.archive.org/web/20210225221011/https://www.atari...
- snvzz 2y agoThe "in this arbitrary programming language we've never used before" was a common occurrence. At some point, we were given a PDF manual of some MIPS clone as well as a simulator. In University, you were supposed to just pick these skills up all by yourself.