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Re:The C64 Mini Computer by throwaway7645 on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:31PM (#15367283)
How easy would it be to write games on this that use the joy stick, and what are the compiler options? BASIC interpreter, C compiler, Pascal compiler, Assembly?
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Re:The C64 Mini Computer by biggieshellz on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:34PM (#15367322)
C64 BASIC is pretty terrible -- to do anything with graphics or sound, you really have to use PEEK/POKE and do it in 6502 assembly. Aside from that, 6502 assembly is your best bet. There are lots of tutorials online for the C64 specifically, and there are good cross-assembler toolchains available.
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Re:The C64 Mini Computer by throwaway7645 on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:23PM (#15367732)
Sounds fun, but kind of a pain. I've been meaning to write a Forth...sounds like a good project.
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Re:The C64 Mini Computer by jerf on Friday September 29, 2017 @03:37PM (#15368428)
It is definitely doable: https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Forth
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Re:The C64 Mini Computer by Luc on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:35PM (#15367327)
> How easy would it be to write games on this that use the joy stick

Easy peasy, just read the bits from $DC00.

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