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C64 Burrow.BAS (basic-code.bearblog.dev)
30 points by ibobev 46 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


That is awesome. I'm currently down a similar rabbit hole, having found Eightyone zx81 emulator, and z88dk c compiler dev kit for Z80. Trying to make interesting programs that run acceptably fast/slow on those old computers, has a nostalgic haiku feel to it, that i really miss with modern computers. Suddenly you start to care about how you loop and assign in your C program, because doing it the 'wrong' way makes the compiler emit inefficient assembly; it's 'roguelike programming', in the sense that all your choices suddenly have consequences.


So ? is an abbreviation for PRINT. (I don't remember that, but I had a Vic-20.)


It is. I don't know the origin but it was a common abbreviation in a lot of BASIC dialects.

Here's where I'm starting to down this rabbit hole: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/24340/whe...


Yep https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/PRINT

On the Vic and other Microsoft BASICs, too




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