Re:FAP80, a retro computer without the retro baggage
by barrkel on Thursday January 19, 2017 @04:12PM
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Nothing will replicate the same feeling I had when I wrote my first machine code program by poking into RAM, and discovered the world of million+ operations per second, rather than thousands from the land of BASIC. It was like a glimpse of blinding light through the narrowest of cracks.
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Re:FAP80, a retro computer without the retro baggage
by stevekemp on Saturday January 21, 2017 @02:40AM
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Those were the days, I programmed in assembly language for at least two years without an assembler.
As you say poking bytes into RAM, via the lookup table in the computer manual. Writing them down on paper, and trying to leave space in the code so I didn't have to recalculate all the relative JMP-offsets if I tweaked my program over a few days.