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Re:C64 Power C Tutorial by pjmlp on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @03:04PM (#20158481)
As someone that started coding back when those systems were modern, if you want to be in control learn Assembly.
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Re:C64 Power C Tutorial by bane on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @11:29PM (#20161545)
IIR, C wasn't even available for most of these systems as they probably didn't have the local resources to compile their own code.
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Re:C64 Power C Tutorial by pjmlp on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @01:12AM (#20161940)
On what concerns the Spectrum range, there were some pseudo C compilers that you could type in, but there were basically toys given the 48KB space.

With the 128KB +3A model you could use CP/M, which had a better compiler available, still a pseudo C toy compiler versus the real thing on UNIX.

We only used such compilers for homework assignments.

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Re:C64 Power C Tutorial by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @06:38PM (#20160143)
Kids these days. If you want real control, learn to move the patch cords. Otherwise, you're stuck with only one set of opcodes.

;-)

(No, I never worked on such a system... but my mother did.)

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