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by LocalH 14 days ago
Microsoft BASIC was a pretty decent interpreter, I wouldn't call it "shitware", so there you go?
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lstodd 14 days ago
I would have preferred a Forth on my C64 seriously. But no, we were stuck with this "38911 bytes free" crap.
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LocalH 13 days ago
If you checked any of the contemporaries, C64 offered more free BASIC RAM than others.
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olyjohn 14 days ago
I don't remember DOS 6.22 blue screening on me. Maybe it wasn't so bad.
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pwdisswordfishq 13 days ago
That's because it black-screened instead.
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LocalH 13 days ago
Ah for the days when the OS didn't stop you from jerking off every hardware bit
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