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Re:The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Disk Drive Talk [video] by buescher on Thursday September 16, 2021 @01:31PM (#28554605)
"In order to shave off a cycle from every instruction that modifies another one, the entire loop will be placed in the zero-page." Oh wow.
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Re:The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Disk Drive Talk [video] by TacticalCoder on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:35PM (#28556294)
If you like that kind of stuff, here's the 256 bytes (!) C64 intro "A mind is born" and its technical explanation... It's using that same zero-page trick:

https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born

I have no words... These coders are amazing!

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