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Programming the Commodore 64: the Definitive Guide

Posted by timothy on from the you-kids-keep-off-my-xeriscaping dept.

Mirk writes "Back in 1985 it was possible to understand the whole computer, from the hardware up through device drivers and the kernel through to the high-level language that came burned into the ROMs (even if it was only Microsoft BASIC). The Reinvigorated Programmer revisits R. C. West's classic and exhaustive book Programming the Commodore 64 and laments the decline of that sort of comprehensive Deep Knowing."

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  1. Invert rose-tinted-glasses by sakdoctor · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Here in 2010 it's not necessary to understand the whole computer, from the hardware up through device drivers and the kernel through to the high-level language that came from your apt repositories (even if it is only a python interpreter). Let's celebrate the rise of this sort of universal accessibility, to even the novice programmer.

  2. Re:6510 Machine Language by abigor · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hope you like high-level because the day is coming that it will be illegal to be low-level without a government (or more likely Apple) license.

    Kook alert