@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!
@flatduckrecords.co.uk For the mildly interested: the interesting part was using some SjASMPlus macros and IFDEFs so that one source file can be used to create all three versions. They are mostly the same but the key differences are: start address, print routine, and general vector for calling arbitrary ZX ROM routines. 🤓