@screwtape @gnemmi i am confused why are you looking at me?

i wonder what 6502 assembler is the community standard for atari 2600 dev now

i always used this piece of vaporware everyone swore by on the atariage forums called dasm

created a new retrocomputing space on matrix

could not find a recently active one https://matrix.to/#/#retrocomputing:matrix.solarpunk.au

@alcinnz @permacomputer was a little project i started a while ago to answer this question!

i seem to remember you can make gallium-arsenide transistors by hand

i personally would not be opposed to going back to 70s/80s microcomputer technology, it was very educational and promoted literacy

more importantly soldering is fun

i wish i had more things to solder

i partly turned back to hobby coding because it's cheaper than electronics lol

"but where will the money come from??"

why are these people so loud? i want no strings attached so i would probably not want or get funding

barring web browsers (maybe dillo??), most ecosystems can be one-personed into existence from first principles in a finite number of afternoons...

so what's the big deal? kinda smells like liberalism

BASIC is a joyful little language!

my first coding book saw me attempting to input commodore BASIC V2 into microsoft QBASIC for MS-DOS 6.22, at age 9.

i am so glad i managed to return to now free commodore emulators like VICE, the simplicity of BASIC makes it highly composable.

writing a new game manages to balance nostalgia with "replayability".

let's all just use shortwave radio everybody c'mon yeah

@screwtape i am attempting to answer the question of whether it would be better to use arrays of undefined type, or variables of string type to store maybe... 20 or so player objects

getting deep into the memory map of commodore BASIC 2.0

https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2020/commodore-basic-variables