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Tom ForsythTomF@mastodon.gamedev.place
Jun 8, 2026, 4:57 AM
@cabel As someone who has transcribed many 8-bit BASIC programs from one platform to another, it is tragic how a screen full of POKEs is correctly interpreted as C64. Every other platform had an actual BASIC that you could do things with!
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Thomas Sturmtsturm@famichiki.jp
Jun 8, 2026, 5:01 AM
@TomF @cabel They all had problems... the same thing on the Spectrum would have been 50 lines of DATA statements with a poke loop and a call into machine code. 😅
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Tom ForsythTomF@mastodon.gamedev.place
Jun 8, 2026, 5:36 AM
@tsturm @cabel Nah, those people were slackers. You can do it all in BASIC if you think hard enough.
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