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on 2011-04-03 at 10:47 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>It's been done on a C-64, but I think a 3.5KB box with no mass storage |
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>might be a little too challenging. |
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3.5? wow, i always thought that the name meant it had 20K... like the C64 |
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and C128. but no. now, almost 30 years later, i learn that it had 5K, 1.5 |
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of them used by the system (you wouldn't want to leave the system without |
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ram, would you?) |
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i never had a vic-20 (my first computer was the atari st-1040 in 1988), |
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but a friend of mine had one in the early 80's and i always wondered at |
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all the things you could do with the thing. i couldn't program, so i used |
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to sit next by him telling him my ideas for a program for algorithmic |
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composition, that he tried to code. |
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