2024-03-07 05:56:03 <X-Scale     > veltas: it's so great to know someone who has also programmed the ZX Spectrum in Zilog Z80A assembly back in the 80s
2024-03-07 05:56:28 <X-Scale     > i remember Z80A machine code making me feel incredibly powerful back then
2024-03-07 05:57:03 <X-Scale     > and the Z80A mnemonics were so much more clear and organized than those of Intel 8085
2024-03-07 05:57:47 <X-Scale     > Federico Faggin ftw
2024-03-07 09:12:00 <veltas      > X-Scale: Sorry I didn't program it in the 80's, I was just saying I think that's how they did it. I got a Spectrum like 8 years ago and did some Z80 on paper for it
2024-03-07 09:12:25 <veltas      > I wasn't alive back then, I'm around 30 :)
2024-03-07 09:13:20 <veltas      > I did use the machine code table in the back of the Spectrum's manual
2024-03-07 15:05:54 <Al2O3       > veltas you and many others did paper code assembly or mini assembly, and we learned that way, and it was majick when it was typed in and ran.  :)
2024-03-07 15:16:20 <X-Scale     > indeed, Al2O3
2024-03-07 15:16:52 <X-Scale     > running an machine code program that didn't crash and would return back to the prompt always felt like a big win back then
2024-03-07 17:41:43 <KipIngram   > Heck, that still feels like a win to me these days.  :-)
2024-03-07 17:42:00 <KipIngram   > It's usually the first thing I make a new Forth do, and then I gradually "grow it."