From: smirzo@example.com   
      
   Ben Collver  writes:   
      
   > On 2025-02-25, Salvador Mirzo  wrote:   
   >> I never used DOS as a programmer, so it wasn't nostalgic to me, but I   
   >> enjoyed seeing how simpler things were back then and how programs like   
   >> debug could help you to see what was going on.  I was reading about 6502   
   >> assembly recently and I became very interested in getting closer to that   
   >> simplicity.  The booklet author remarked that modern x86 assembly isn't   
   >> really meant for programmers, but compilers.  I had never really thought   
   >> of that, but it made a lot of sense to me.  So maybe I should indeed   
   >> look into an older, simpler machine to enjoy the low level of things.   
   >   
   > To validate your post: I think some C=64 retro-enthusiasts who have   
   > never touched a real C=64, and the same can be said of other 8-bit   
   > platforms.  Once for fun i wrote a program for the ZX Spectrum, and i   
   > did not have access to the real hardware. Though i can remember   
   > tinkering with a Timex Sinclair 1000.   
   >   
   > For that matter, 8bitworkshop supports both C=64 and ZX Spectrum   
   > development in corporate web browsers.   
   >   
   > http://8bitworkshop.com/   
   >   
   > See also:   
   >   
   > https://x64.halb.it/   
      
   Very cool stuff!  But I'd believe I have a certain bug to expose   
   relative to 8bitworkshop.com.  The machine screen first appears with a   
   beautiful logo and then eventually it looks like an old buggy TV with   
   red lanes going up the screen:   
      
     https://0x0.st/8AwL.png   
      
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