Amazing work
Commodore 64 Guides
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Re: Commodore 64 Guides
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can verify that it's that way (without the spaces) in the original. Sometimes you had to do it to fit all the code in two screen lines, because that was the maximum line length. So it probably became a habit for some programmers.
That's a shame :( I had been hoping to use this book with my daughter (she's been getting into coding on retro machines like our C64) but I don't think I want to complicate things with the added cognitive load of tokenizing keywords she doesn't even know yet, by hand.
She will blow through it same as so many of us did.
Re: Commodore 64 Guides
#34Nice work. Just recognizing a labor of love for the exemplary product is!
That is all.
Re: Commodore 64 Guides
#35Aren’t these books copyrighted?
Re: Commodore 64 Guides
#36Aren’t these books copyrighted?
Legally speaking, yes they would definitely be. Many old books and periodicals about retrocomputing can now be readily accessed via the Internet Archive and other efforts such as Bitsavers because no one really cares about enforcing these copyrights (and even finding the current right-owners might be infeasible), but selling newly-made hardcopies commercially is way more of a grey area, AIUI.
(There might be some ground for challenging the copyright for works that were first published before 1989 without a copyright notice. But I'm not sure that would apply to these guides.)
Re: Commodore 64 Guides
#37OMG, memories come back. My father brought a C64C back from Germany in 1991, complete with a German edition of the User’s Guide. The sample programs ring a bell. I distinctly remember a 7yo version of myself typing in code for the balloon sprite one.
Sadly, I never had the Programmer’s Reference Guide. I did, though, own „Commodore 64” by Bohdan Frelek, sometimes considered _the_ C64 Polish bible.