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I just got my Commodore 64 to finally display, and any option i have right now is to code in BASIC (untill i get a floppy driver reader). Does anyone know anything on it or can point me in any direction to learn? Thanks!

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Ah, your a harkening me back to the days when I used to type in programs out of magazines on my C64, but I never knew the language, made a cool Christmas tree with blinking lights that played "O Christmas tree" once heh

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www.codeacademy.com

this website will teach you basic programming language from HTML to Java

you can also hit backspace on a Linux OS and hack into it, I wont tell you how many times but I'll tell you it's exploiting Grub Bootloader.

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It's for the zx spectrum which was a UK 8-bit but check out

www.worldofspectrum.org

Specifically the archives FTP with magazine scans from the 1980s or the scanned books. (If their archives don't work, try the mirrors.) Back then it was the only way peeps could learn how to use them.

It's a different computer and they all had proprietary versions of Basic but for the most part they should be near identical.

There's scans of some Usborne computer books too, which although 'for kids' get pretty darn technical (80s kids were crazyfuck smart and the UK had several bedroom programmers who'd sold over a million games by mail order before the age of 14 -see Codemasters, Microprose, the guy who made Lemmings etc.) The Usborne books importantly explain the BASIC differences between the different 8-bit microcomputers.

And when you're really feeling savvy, you could learn to machine code the thing! I forget if the 64 had a Motorola or a Zilog chip

Congrats on the C64! I fucking love 8-bit micros, they still work, you can actually repair them with a soldering iron, and remind me of the time when everything wasn't dumbed down for instant access by the increasingly stupified masses. Back when you didn't just use something, you operated/piloted the thing. (Although that said, programming VCRs were for mensa.)

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It's for the zx spectrum which was a UK 8-bit but check out

www.worldofspectrum.org

Specifically the archives FTP with magazine scans from the 1980s or the scanned books. (If their archives don't work, try the mirrors.) Back then it was the only way peeps could learn how to use them.

It's a different computer and they all had proprietary versions of Basic but for the most part they should be near identical.

There's scans of some Usborne computer books too, which although 'for kids' get pretty darn technical (80s kids were crazyfuck smart and the UK had several bedroom programmers who'd sold over a million games by mail order before the age of 14 -see Codemasters, Microprose, the guy who made Lemmings etc.) The Usborne books importantly explain the BASIC differences between the different 8-bit microcomputers.

And when you're really feeling savvy, you could learn to machine code the thing! I forget if the 64 had a Motorola or a Zilog chip

Congrats on the C64! I fucking love 8-bit micros, they still work, you can actually repair them with a soldering iron, and remind me of the time when everything wasn't dumbed down for instant access by the increasingly stupified masses. Back when you didn't just use something, you operated/piloted the thing. (Although that said, programming VCRs were for mensa.)

It is fun to mess around with older computers but by the time I get out of college quantum computers will replace most internet servers for search browsers and video game companies alike. So this is a good reference when you really want to get that grit feeling when you start up your DOS emulator and you want to make your own sexy program.

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