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Comment by Joe_Cool

10 hours ago

It was always awkward to do low level disk stuff by basically "remoting" into the drive to execute code.

  OPEN 1,8,15,"N:NEWDISK,01":CLOSE 1

was always a weird way to format a floppy...

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mschaef  7 hours ago

Knowing what I know now, I'd have appreciated it much more than I did at the time. (Also, fixing the link rate on the C64 would've been nice too.)

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