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On the plus side, after the first month you have some of the dependencies (MLX, Automatic Proofreader) already installed -- providing you can find the right floppy disc -- so that cuts down the install time 😉 (Similar BASIC-loading-machine code is how I first learned about checksums 😀)

i once wrote a game in assembly language for the Commodore 64. if only i had my hands on it now...

I shivered just looking at the picture....

anil we need to get your blog on @standard.site asap!

Oh, the hours wasted typing in programs and cleaning up the mistakes, this is how I knew early that I was not cut out to be a computer programmer.

I was looking for exactly this. How timely. :-)

Now that was a walk down memory lane!

I don’t even have one anymore but I can’t wait to read this. Thank you dude

Challenging myself to create fast programs and pushing the limits for no other reasons than the machine being available and, for its age, capable. Finding communities of like minded people. Fun times.

I think the term “app” is useful for describing the subset of programs that are intended for end-users. The set of “programs” includes those, but also device drivers, backend services, etc.

I was super poor and even dumber. This could have kept me out of the arcades & saved me enough money to move out of my abusive parent's home.

What I wouldn’t give to show my Pap my iPhone, tap over to YouTube, immediately find early live recordings of Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton, and just… hand it to him and watch. Then I’d show him all the woodworking how-to’s and Wikipedia. Oh man.

Making banners for my cousins’ birthday parties!

But what about the click through where you sign over data rights to your program usage? Or user profile? Or location data? Or…?

Or in 1982, I could customise the PET games because I had a prototype programmable character board in my PET that put RAM where the character ROM normally was, and I had written the charset editor for my friend who made the hardware, so I could make PET Galaxians look right by loading a charset 1st

“install an app” Nice

Oh that’s cool!

(that's what the piece is about)

I watched this video last week and I can't believe I found a reason to mention it to someone. It's so cool and I wish I had known about it in the 1980s

Unless the error was in the magazine, then wait a month for a correction (hopefully)

Anil, you may be interested to know that Compute’s Gazette has been revived as a multiformat magazine - and it continues to provide new programs for the user to install/type in computesgazette.com

I mean it is probably actually pretty timely in some cases. Maybe I should link to your article from our deal? hammacher.com/deals/the-co...

My grandpa got one when I was a kid, and we learned how to use it together. I thought it was so cool that it would run through my tv. I still play Dig Dug and H.E.R.O on emulator occasionally, ha