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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·6 months agoMy daughter told me the other day, “I bet I could figure out a Commodore 64 if I had one.” Good luck figuring out LOAD “*”,8,1 by yourself, kid.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months agoShe meant she could figure it out just playing around with it, not reading a manual or asking around. I told her she’d have to read a manual.
minus-squarecmfhsu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoErm I might be showing my inexperience here. Is there no equivalent to man LOAD in the commodore world? Or even just help?
minus-squareAVincentInSpace@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoThat thing had 16K of ROM. Every byte was sacred. Only manual was on paper.
minus-squareWhelks_chance@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoI can’t tell if you’re joking and deliberately invoking the original comic above
minus-squareAVincentInSpace@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoWith the ubiquity of C64 emulators, that’s easy enough to demonstrate by experiment
My daughter told me the other day, “I bet I could figure out a Commodore 64 if I had one.”
Good luck figuring out LOAD “*”,8,1 by yourself, kid.
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She meant she could figure it out just playing around with it, not reading a manual or asking around. I told her she’d have to read a manual.
Erm I might be showing my inexperience here.
Is there no equivalent to
man LOADin the commodore world? Or even justhelp?Not that I remember.
That thing had 16K of ROM. Every byte was sacred. Only manual was on paper.
I can’t tell if you’re joking and deliberately invoking the original comic above
With the ubiquity of C64 emulators, that’s easy enough to demonstrate by experiment