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I had several year of intimate life with C64 - including burning chips and banging my head on it...
Today I user emulators when feel the urge...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Today I user emulators when feel the urge...
That's probably what I should have stuck with.
A few years ago I bought the C64 Mini. Thought it was neat, played with it for a few hours (total), but it's currently gathering dust.
Then I bought an actual working C64 off of some eBay-like site. Works fine, the guy I bought it from threw in a few game disks, but my problem is the display. I can hook it up to my main monitor, but don't have the room on my desk to dedicate to it. And I'd have to buy some other display or adapter if I wanted to set it up elsewhere. So it's also gathering dust.
Then the company that made the C64 Mini made a full-sized one, with a working keyboard. I've been tempted to get it (it would solve the display connectivity issue, as it's using HDMI, like the Mini) but I suspect it'll gather dust as well.
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Patient zero: assembler.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I grew up on Input magazine [^] , spent countless hours typing hex assembly into ZX81, ZX Spectrum and C64. it certainly teaches you attention to detail. 
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Assembler - and I did way back then!
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I fell in love with computer at 12, when a friend of mine show me typing a program to get a skying game. Don't ask me why, it blowed my mind, and that's it.
Some months after, I had my ZX 48k, and started my trip to hell using basic, but as soon as I could (not that easy in Italy in 1984) I switch to Assembly.
So, today, Assembler.
I love Assembler.
Assembler.
Bye.
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If I remember well it would also run Turbo Pascal.
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basic is well... to basic
Pascal would be the only good choice off course
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I had a C64 back in the 80's and there was actually a BASIC language compiler available for it, by Abacus. It generates machine language from Basic and has extensions beyond the built in Basic.
Having been using Basic since then in many variations over the years, the language of choice for me would be Basic, but a BASIC compiler with a modern command set.
I also worked with machine code on the C64. I wrote my own compiler, which had a subset of basic but was designed for maximum speed, and I wrote it in compile Basic and it generated direct to machine language. I used my own compiler to write a family friendly video game which was published in the Compute Gazette magazine (October 1987).
I still write in Basic today using PowerBasic for Windows using the WIN32 API.
So Basic is a good language to use, but it needs to be a fast compiler, support inline assembler and have direct access to either the hardware directly or the operating system.
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I never had a C64, but did get a TI 99-4/a when I was around 15/16 and quickly learned BASIC, writing little programs that solved math/geometry homework problems. All that I REMember about it now was that it required line numbers. I still have that system in it's original box, but it hasn't been plugged in for well over 20 years now. Even if I did, I doubt I'd be able to find an adapter for the TV. 
Good times! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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That's the same computer I started on back in 1983 which was responsible for my current career path. I learned BASIC, Extended BASIC and finally assembly.
Kelly Herald
Software Developer
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I had enough interest in it to spend my allowance on the Extended BASIC cartridge. It was about that time that the cassette interface crapped out...loading worked, saving didn't so not being able to save put an end to that. It was still good for playing games...I spent a lot of late hours working through the (I think it was Scott Adams) adventure games. When I started my CS degree a few years later, BASIC was the first class...it was like finding an old friend.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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REXX
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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The best thing about that type of computer model: ROM!
No matter how much you messed something up,
power off
power on
ta da!
Back to the prompt.
Try again.
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If I had them?
1 Atari 400
2 Atari 600 XL
1 Atari 800 XL
2 Atari 1040 STE
1 Atari TT
2 C64
1 Sinclair ZX81
And not to forget the old Elf and its little brother Zwölf. I used assembly on all of them (and still do), and slowly began using C on the 16 bit Ataris. What do I need BASIC for?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Well, I had a BBC Model B, so it started in a very good Basic with structured programming components, i.e. procedures and functions.
Plus it had a built in assembler, so one could learn assembly language very easily.
It was ideal imho.
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BASIC was a hoot back in the day, it would likely drive me crazy now without being able to build sub procedures to breakup the code a bit. Quickbasic on 286 had some nice features added at the time.
but I'd likely drop down to C to get the full benefits of the C64. Things were so much fun back then, and challenging.
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Politician auditioned horse (5)
modified 3-Dec-20 8:11am.
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TRUMP? But I think maybe the "'s ass" is missing at the end.
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I had a similar thought.
If "auditioned" was somehow an anagram indicator then:
horse => hoser ( a foolish or uncouth person aka a Politician)
// TODO: Insert something here
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True, but it's not an anagram indicator.
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 Nope. Any politician with a 5-letter name would work there!
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If that "S" was a "W", I'd think it was an anagram ... 
As it is, I got nothin'.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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My my, so much naughtiness today!
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