@samcoupe.com Haha! I would never! Just brainstorming some ideas for Quazar’s next PCB production run, maybe a good catch-all for the 8-bit wide-boys. 🚚
@samcoupe.com Hmm 🤔
@fuzzweed.co.uk commodore sixty phwoar
@samcoupe.com No one has lapels big enough these days to wear a mighty CPC 464 pin badge. We’d need to bring back disco collars first.
@samcoupe.com Yikes, yeah obfuscating the thing being demonstrated behind obscure/unusual techniques is probably not the best way to teach!
@samcoupe.com The most common thing I’d use DEF FN for is provided by DPEEK and DPOKE on SAM anyway! Are you familiar with Battle Bunny’s “DEFADD trick”?
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@breakintoprogram.co.uk I’m a big fan of LBiP tables! My top two are the character set and the memory layout. 🏓
@colinhoad.com In Space, no one can hear you Waka Waka.
@krisrobocop.bsky.social If you immediately know the candle light is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago.
@breakintoprogram.co.uk Hmm, the 0x38 is suspicious. The location IY+0E is BORDCR, which is initialised to 0x38 (i.e. white PAPER, black INK), so it looks like the value being assigned to IYL instead of L?
@colinhoad.com Yes, me too! And I’m grateful for those old Amstrad foot warmers err I mean power supply bricks on colder days.
@wretchedmorgan.bsky.social cursed to live with the knowledge that it was once, briefly, perfect (and never will be again)
@fuzzweed.co.uk I was wondering where you’d put the left and right cursors! Neat. 😉
@fuzzweed.co.uk Ah, okay so e.g. pressing SW40 causes current to flow through U1D which closes its switch between A15 and D0, registering a SPACE, and also U4D which is A8/D0 (SHIFT) … a.k.a BREAK! Is that right?
@sinclairresearch.bsky.social Hah, NOPE not quite! (This is why no one uses VAL$)
🤦♂️😆
@sinclairresearch.bsky.social 2 and 4?
VAL evaluates a string, returns a number
VAL$ evaluates a string, returns another string
@fuzzweed.co.uk Beautiful!
🍫 🌈
@barrytopping.com Is this a One More Go ep 19 shadow drop teaser?? 🥹
@fuzzweed.co.uk 🤣 🙌
@fuzzweed.co.uk Origin story: fell into a radioactive vehicle inspection pit.
@fuzzweed.co.uk 🎶 Does whatever a Spider-Tote does!
@fuzzweed.co.uk The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Totem and His Side Kick, Jack.
@breakintoprogram.co.uk Thanks, very interesting! I don’t speak 68000 but I think I’m following along. I’m curious what happens if you dont politely request the bus, etc. …looks like I need to get an emulator and tool chain set up!