after a few weeks of working at the C64, i thought it was time to figure out how to turn my programs into plain text on another computer.
git repo to follow. :)
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done! still haven't decided whether to add the "prison bars" or not. but managed to replicate the original's page and line breaks pretty exactly. this needed just a few tweaks here and there.
i had a choice to make here: arrange it so that every item ends up in the same place on the same page as in the original, even if a bunch of it doesn't make any sense?
i decided to do so. the benefit would be that someone familiar with the original table (which i am guessing is a few people), for all its terrible layout, would not be confused by looking at a different table that would still have had pretty bad layout.
so any changes made to the table cannot change the relative positions of things, unless or until i rebuild the whole damn thing as part of a (hypothecial) larger effort.
there are a few errata items that can be fixed without changing the layout. not in this first edition, though. keeping all the typos and stuff, so i can make a clean diff just for them.
i could use feedback on this.
while i reproduce a lot of things in somewhat embarassingly close detail, one thing i am not at all wedded to is the IMHO atrocious typesetting of tables in the original programmer's guide.
i'm confident this one, for instance, does not need internal vertical rules. in fact, no vertical rules at all?
in other news, in a ~stunning~ case of misappropriation, i finally labeled my PiDP-8.
apologies to @inversephase. i promise, the rest of the sticker will go on an 8-bitter. :)
Quietly working on the #c64 assembler, I integrated some small utilities, notably HEXDUMP. Which by complete coincidence yielded this most #cyberpunk of (literal) screenshots.
I'll post source code at some point, but for now you'll have to log onto an actual #BBS to get it. (!)
One of the bedroom programmers.
Screen shows a simplistic "assembler" I made out of plain BASIC. It does little more than translating mnemonics into opcodes, but it does that!
Fun fact: The computer table is my 1992 original. :)
(Never owned a C64 as a kid, so this is all new to me! :D)
