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BASIC wasn’t a dirty word
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
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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Rapid App Development
With each new release, Microsoft has made the life of an Access Developer easier and putting together prototypes or finished products has become faster. But there is one thing that I’ve always wanted to be able to do that Access … Continue reading
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Never stop learning
During winter, last year I decided to head back to school, well online school and enrolled in a TAFE course called Certificate IV in Programming, the course covering quite a range of topics from JAVA, SQL, C# and ending with … Continue reading
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Old bookstore charm
Is there any other place in the world that has the charm of an old bookstore where millions of words and thousands of stories covering just about every topic you could possibly imagine reside at your fingertips. On a recent … Continue reading
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Beginners programming books now free
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
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
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
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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