Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/16
I recently found some old magazine issues of my early programming escapades. It reminded me of the really old days where – as a school kid – I tried to buy Nibble magazine at a regular base. It was expensive (I think it was around 8 Dutch Guilders (or NLG) – close to EUR 4 – which was a lot for me, though less expensive than diskettes that were like NLG 10 each).
But it was fun as the magazine focussed at computer programs and programming transitioned my life. From Integer Basic via AppleSoft Basic (and various smaller attempts in FORTH, MuSimp, LISA Assembler and LOGO) to Turbo Pascal on CP/M.
Recently I learned that all issues (16k pages total!) have been scanned and OCR-ed and can be obtained on DVD for a modest price. Even better: all their software is available for free.
Just follow these links:
For some history:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/13
Via KansasFest 2009 Keynote with Jason Scott | KansasFest [WayBack] I bumped into these documentaries by Jason Scott Sadofsky:
The BBS Documentary DVDs are No Longer for Sale [WayBack] though “There will be digital copies sold in the future!” and there is “BBS The.Documentary Part 1 – Baud – YouTube”
There are upcoming documentaries as well, including one on the 6502.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/16
From a while ago:
David Ratnasabapathy: The VIC-20 programmer’s manual was the best intro to programming I’ve ever read. I’d love to find a copy online, the new generation could use it.
+Isaac Kuo that book is wealth. I loved marginal explanations that expanded on the main text, it’s a tactic I use in my own class notes.
The manual was called Personal Computing on the VIC 20 and it is online! This is amazing! Ah, memories.
http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/VIC-20%20Programmer’s%20Reference%20Guide.pdf
+Tomasz Machalski there’s a motherload here:
http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/
Including VIC-20 User’s Manual.pdf
http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/VIC-20%20User’s%20Manual.pdf
and VIC-20 Programmer’s Reference Guide.pdf
http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/VIC-20%20Programmer’s%20Reference%20Guide.pdf
Jeroen Wiert Pluimers:+David Ratnasabapathy thanks a lot!
Downloaders: that site is slow. Not as slow as the New Horizons uplink, nor as slow as 1980s modems, but be prepared for some serious wait time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem#The_Smartmodem_and_the_rise_of_BBSs
Note that the wayback machine has them cached:
–jeroen
via It’s our third birthday! What better present than the VIC-20 [1] (“A Real… [WayBack]
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/10
something like: 100 PRINT “&F2&B&H3&W2Hello, world!”would select font #2, bold, with triple height and double width, and render “Hello!” on the high-res screen
Source: The Codeless Code: Ancient code – hand coded (on paper) 6502 assembly!
via: 6502 assemblerbeen there, done that – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/01
Apple Inc. just turned 40 today. Happy birthday!
Based on Mac@30, here is my educated guess for Apple@40.
(Boy what were they thinking when establishing Apple Computer Inc. on April 1st 1976)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/04
A while ago, Alan Cox write a G+ post pointing me to Easy 6502 by skilldrick. The last couple of weeks I finally found time to play with it:
It is a tutorial ebook by Nick Morgan with examples and a play ground based on the adapted JavaScript 6502 assembler and simulator right integrated into a github.io site.
From the perspective of learning assembly language to get a grasp of thinking at the lowest computer abstraction, it is an ideal tutorial: the 6502 is a very simple 8-bit processor with only 3 registers. These restrictions make programming fun.
These are the topics covered:
This is what Alan thinks about it:
… some of the other 6502 tutorials
This one is really really neat – bit more basic than the bits I need to brush up on but really nicely done.
skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/Easy 6502.
via:
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