Re: [OT]Retro computing
- Posted by useless_ Jul 03, 2013
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It was scarey that in the C64, only the first 2 letters of all the variable names mattered. So 'cow' and 'cog' were the same variable, and pairs like 'pr' referred to the function 'print'. I once wrote a routine to list all the letter pairs that were not broken up by reserved word pairs, and then alphabetical lists of all those pairs that were broken up. Using that list, and reserving ram for peeks and pokes of values in all the crannies of the memorymap, for one app i still ran out of names for variables. I didn't have much free memory either, i was using the ram under the roms for stuff as well. And a data dump to the printer full of fanfold at shift change could take 45 minutes.
I still have working VICs and C64s, and still would enjoy making a few improvements to them.
useless
