C64 Burrow.BAS
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7 hours ago
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5 hours ago
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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.
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card_zero
4 hours ago
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So ? is an abbreviation for PRINT. (I don't remember that, but I had a Vic-20.)
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EvanAnderson
4 hours ago
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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...

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