Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p...
by barrkel on Friday March 31, 2023 @08:42AM
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The Amstrad CPC 464 had a "copy cursor" and a "copy" key. Holding down shift and using the arrow keys let you navigate a second cursor to text you wanted to copy, then the "copy" key would insert the letter under the copy cursor at your insert cursor and advance both cursors forward one character.
The C64 wasn't as good a BASIC environment. You can overwrite text in a program listing and press ENTER to update a line, which can copy a line if you can squeeze in a new number.
Neither were as good as Acorn's BASIC.
For a couple of years in secondary school, my alarm was a program I wrote every night on my CPC 464. My tape drive was broken, so I had to type every program in fresh. If I wanted to wake up in the morning, I'd write a nested loop over the hours and minutes and start playing sound.
The C64 wasn't as good a BASIC environment. You can overwrite text in a program listing and press ENTER to update a line, which can copy a line if you can squeeze in a new number.
Neither were as good as Acorn's BASIC.
For a couple of years in secondary school, my alarm was a program I wrote every night on my CPC 464. My tape drive was broken, so I had to type every program in fresh. If I wanted to wake up in the morning, I'd write a nested loop over the hours and minutes and start playing sound.