Patiently awaiting for a bunch of C64 stuff from overseas along with some disks I ordered on eBay for some music software (Kawasaki Synthesizer!)
In the meantime I've been farting around in basic. I've been going through the system guide. I can see how amazing this must have been to have had this back in the hey-day as a young kid.
Me? I'm just a dummy with functionally no experience in programming. So that's been kinda cool to try to create a program like people did back in the day. My math skills are not great, so this type of thinking is sort of new to me. We'll see what I can make. Mostly been doing some dumb stuff, will probably try to make a program to calculate whether or not you hit an opponent in some pen and paper roleplaying games, stuff like that.
I've been reading this
book and it's a great look at this classic ONE LINE OF CODE* and still, I think, an interesting look at the role of computers in art. I got the book used on Amazon but there is a .pdf on the site. It's worth a read. No need to know any programming skills.
I've been doing all my BASIC stuff in VICE. Because I can just type about 10x faster on a modern keyboard than I can on a C64 keyboard, especially with some of the (now) non-standard placement of stuff like parenthesis, plus, minus, equal, etc. Once I get my floppy emulator I'll be able to easily transfer programs from my Mac to my C64. Looking forward to it.
Any of you guys with PAL C64s check out the new game
BAD MOON RISING.
I love Nazis on the moon. I sort of want to buy it, but I only have an NTSC system
I could run the digital version on VICE...but meh. Maybe I should get that C64 maxi and use that as a dedicated emulator?
*Calling all Kernows!!!