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The feet and legs was the only one I discovered unintentionally.

I'd like to see a Squid Game played-out using these games...lol

That's a nice joystick. Did you build it? If so, any build guide for one?

What’s the prize for the smallest number of lines?

Re: 14:40 It would be quite interesting to see what kind of videos you would come up with on MSX BASIC (which I guess is more comparable to BASIC on the C128).

Don't think this is necessarily worth getting if you already have the Penultimate+ and an SD card reader. Or maybe even the origonal Penultimate. But apart from that It's pretty much a must IMO.

This video is very educational! It answers a lot of questions about C64 BASIC and RAM usage. Plus you throw in a new SYS command at the beginning I never knew before. Thank you!

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autoduel! I love that game!

The lunar lander ship looked better on the VIC20 than on the C64! @ 17:35. The C64 version to me looked like B.O.B. from the movie Black Hole lol all damaged

Pacman was rewritten recently by someone and its almost like the original arcade version!

It would be nice to see a Pac-man game written in this Basic.

I remember that glitch on the Commodore 64.

i am going to need to play this. my personal opinion is that they should not have put tutorial in the beginning. i prefer when games like this are total blind

Why didn't they have a way to enter programs as Braille.

This programming style would have driven my computer science teacher MAD back in the 80s at school. He would call this "spaghetti code". We even weren't allowed to use Basic but had to use Turbo Pascal instead. It is still fun to watch but comes from a time when only ONE person in the world had to understand the code and - be honest - couldn't change a thing after a while because the code is simply unreadable. But a part of me still loves it.

A really amazing piece of software. I have a Windows 95 piece of software called Orbits3.0 which does the same sort of thing with a bit more graphics thrown in. Theres a section that will give you a list of things to view between whatever dates you choose. It includes phases, eclipses and planetary alignments and gives you details of where to point your telescope depending on your viewing place on the planet. I wish someone put it into a handheld device.

Nice to see that BASIC, and it's concept, isn't dead. I thought from the name, that you had actually found something useful from the Haresoft company of back in the day. Glad I didn't miss out on it then.

the bouncing ball program just causes the ball to draw to the left and repeat, did I enter something wrong? I typed everything correct

Hi, this is the inventor of this trick writing. I opend up the boarder above and below the screen (not the sideboarders, that was someone else) in the beginning of the year 1983. To my knowledge i was the first person who ever did this. I wrote a machine language program to put this routine into the interrupt of the C64 to open up the screen permanently and having the cursor free for your own programs. My initial publishing was in the German Computer Magazine 'Happy Computer' Issue 11/85 (Nov 1985!) two years _before_ Zzap shamelessly published it without giving credits. If you have that special issue of Happy Computer magazine, openup page 72 to see my listing and also find my real name. The original title of this program is 'Longscreen 64' and is one of 4 listings i published in that magazine back in the day. I just today stumbled on your video, nice reminescent to my youth, but also kind of salty memories. I had a questionable career in the so called 'scene', i am listed in the csdb, but to be honest, i am not proud of it. Some years back i sold all of my gaming hardware, all what i have left is a Retro Emulation Handheld which is perfect for me. Its the GPD Win 4 with the 7840u processor in it and it can recreate all the consoles of my childhood and youth. Thats all whats left after buying the C64 back in the fall of 1982. Sometimes i which i have never bought it since it had i huge impact into my life, but i was young and i was stupid. I didnt know what life can bring besides the computers and the electronic gaming. Today its sad to see that children run around using the 1000 times more powerful smartphones without any hesitation or doubts in the companies that are behind those. But thats another topic. Ok, i stop here, nice video, thanks, and check out said magazine, there you will find the original listing of the original inventor! Bye! (MH 3/jun/24)

That does not look like a C64. Its really nice what is it? Great game btw. I am builidng my own 6502 computer with 16k ram and maybe a oled display. This will all be done in cc65 assembly.

Great tip!

It would be interesting to see where Hare Basic fits into Noel's Retro Lab's bench marking spreadsheet. Search for his video "Is this the FASTEST and CHEAPEST 8-Bit Computer Ever?" and see the link in the video description "BASIC benchmarck page". The simple basic code is in the "BASIC benchmark" tab. 10 FOR i=1 TO 10 20 s=0 30 FOR j=1 TO 1000 40 s=s+j 50 NEXT j 60 PRINT "."; 70 NEXT i 80 PRINT s CBM basic does it in 40 seconds. VIC20 in 37 seconds.

Love making games on it in basic then using the C-128s basic compiler. Not pure machine language speed, but for most games it worked out pretty great! Of course the sprites were also the shiz for games.

I found out the PowerCartridge solves the LOAD mess. It just allows DRUN/DLOAD "Name" and you can use wildcards. Also you get DIR that is non destructive, unlike LOAD"$",8 and LIST

I saw that Basil Fawlty reference. Also, Betsy Ross was known to me because she appears in Day of the Tentacle, in a very famous puzzle that involves changing the US flag design to be used as a disguise 400 years in the future

hi I'm a 53 year old widow but I had one of these as a kid and at school. I used "Bankstreet Writer" and wrote in a different but cooperative code everytime without compiling so like ,, how what was I doing ? and how did I used to colorize the 1st my instructor had seen of color font + could make intergeres flow random non consecutive and now did I used to bust my own 16bit password so I could get my homework out? = my goal. knowing 36 ways to wipe a corrupted drives reinstall win 7- 10. + I had to learn how to undo the hood ; move the cmos pin over to reset; and hold the power button down with the battery out and pc plugged in to drain the condenser to remove a malicious power on password somehow remotely installed and took johns bitcoins. it doesn't matter because u can't do your own private in California but I'd like to not be hacked , can I use c64 for sercurity?

Two years later, I'm still a lamer!

You forgot the first Laptop, Epson HX-20 Portable Computer (released 1981, price I don't remember at the moment). Officially it could have been upgraded to 32kB RAM; but I own two special computers that were modified for the German Army, with 64kB RAM installed! But only 32kB usable at the same time, you needed to switch the memory banks with a special list of steps 😊

Not sure how it would slow things down, but with a little adjustment to the character set, you might design some mean looking little faces for the lowest or leading block of each column, and they look meaner as they get closer. Also instead of "Game Over" I would suggest "Thou Art Doomed" or something in keeping with the theme.

Is that chuck norries in BL II ? 😂

Exept you're 40 years late

I have been using chatgpt as a coding assistant for a long time now and what I found it is the same thing, it not only does stuff wrong it sometimes claims bugs are fixed but they are not. You end up having to fix all the bugs in it defeating the purpose.

12:35 "R is the base register" but I don't see any use of it. Even more, I removed both occurrences of it (on Vice emulator) and the "Balloons" program seems to work just the same !

I still own my Commodore 64 64c,128d, and 128. 1581 3.5inch disk drives, 1571,1541 5.25", all programs since 1979. The 1200 baud modem, printers etc. Never found support since 1990

I'm amazed it's that fast from an interpreter, I expected it to compile the code first. He should make a compiler too, although not sure if it could be that much faster. If only this was around back in the day.

Hey Robin I realise you are not going to fix the entire code but you changed score variable then the next chapter you did not and said it was ok because you ran that chapter but the score variable was after an if then statement lol. Love the videos great work

I find the official user guide/manual and the reference guide are guilty of the same thing. Using this "dumbed down" language that isn't helpful because I'd rather it tell me the proper term along with an explanation, then suddenly it launches into unexplained code. It's definitely helpful going through it though but I need other books to actually make any sense of it.

you're using a compiler. This is not really programming in assembler

Awesome series of videos, Robin! I love Le Mans as it's the only racing game I know of that uses the paddles, which I think are sadly underutilised. If you ever feel like coding another game for the C64, please consider Sega's Turbo with paddle support. John Champeau of Champ Games did an amazing version for the Atari 2600 & I would love to see this on the C64. Cheers

the 16K, was the address able memory space, ram rom, and else a addressable, rateable or not, even to, pc, mac, the maximum addressable memory, upper top limit, of address able space even on memory installed,

I'd love to play a game like that on Atari 2600. Maybe something based on Centipede. But with no centipedes. Just more and more mushrooms, descending upon you.

This game was so fun, Robin! I almost beat it on my first try :) Wish we had this in Compute's Gazette back in the day!