Category Archives: BASIC

TheC64

Posted on January 15, 2020 by admin

A couple of years ago Retro Games released TheC64 mini. Basically a little C64 without a working keyboard. It was a lot of fun, especially playing some of the built-in games and of course adding some old favorites. For Christmas … Continue reading →

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BASIC wasn’t a dirty word

Posted on January 1, 2020 by admin

Why was the Commodore VIC 20 such a fabulous computer to learn to program?  When you look back at the release of the VIC 20 in 1981 the word computer wasn’t in the vocabulary of the average person. Outside of a few … Continue reading →

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Commodore 64 Terminal Program

Posted on February 7, 2018 by admin

Sometimes I feel like an archaeologist rediscovering a long-forgotten world when I look back at projects I worked on as a teenager. I often examine completed programs or pieces of code that my younger self created over 30 years ago … Continue reading →

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Beginners programming books now free

Posted on February 26, 2016 by admin

Back in the early 1980s Usborne Publishing released a series of computer programming books for the numerous 8bit computers that were available. These books served as a launch pad for many programmers and made complex functions simple. Recently Usborne Publishing … Continue reading →

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Joy of coding

Posted on December 4, 2015 by admin

It’s been a long time since I started coding and over the past 30+ years if found that the continual challenges and enjoyment that coding has brought me to be a great way to past the time. Recently I was … Continue reading →

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Launching 64 programs from a 128

Posted on June 2, 2013 by admin

How to launch a C64 program from a C128 in 128 mode: Location 65533 will return a unique value depending on the mode / machine which is running. Using the ABS function allows us to make the variable M equal … Continue reading →

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Load and Run

Posted on September 16, 2003 by admin

Here is a utility program for everyone. One of the worst features of the C64 is the way the 1541 handles machine language program. It is essential that you load a ML program wit a “,8,1” suffix so that the … Continue reading →

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