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Season 12 - Back to BASIC...
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All Episodes in this Season
Episode #108 - Advanced input with get
BASIC INPUT command works great for prototypes and small programs. If you care about user experience you need to create you own input routine with the GET command.
Episode #107 - BASIC GET ASC AND CHR$
GET instruction reads the keyboard buffer instead of waiting for an input. It can be used to read keypresses and to let users take immediate actions or make quick decisions.
Episode #106 - BASIC INPUT
You aready know how to PRINT stuff in BASIC, right? Great! Now, it's time to ask the user for an INPUT!
Episode #105 - BASIC SAVE & VERIFY
In this episode we'll learn how to save and verify BASIC programs on both C64 and VIC-20.
Episode #104 - Loading in BASIC
Today we will learn about different modes of the BASIC load command. How to display the directory, and why it even works, and how to load BASIC and Assembly programs from a disk drive.
Episode #103 - BASIC memory layout
When we turn the Commodore 64 on it greets us with an information about how many bytes are free for BASIC programs. But not all of it can be used for the code. As soon as we introduce variables, arrays or do operations on strings the interpreter needs to allocate memory for them as well. Today we'll take a closer look at the memory layout of BASIC programs, and what happens when the program grows.
Episode #102 - BASIC in Assembly II
In this episode, we take a look at the tokenization process. It is a routine that converts BASIC keywords and commands into single-byte values, called tokens. This happens automatically when we type a new line of a program. But if we want to inject the program directly into the memory, we need to do tokenize keywords ourselves. We also learn how to help the KickAssembler compiler determine addresses of labels in complicated situations.
Episode #101 - BASIC in Assembly I
When we type programs in BASIC, they are pre-processed and saved into the memory, to be interpreted later. Now imagine we don't need to type them anymore. What if we could write their contents directly into the memory alongside our assembly program. Well, that's what we are going to do in this episode.