Comment by MomsAVoxell
2 days ago
Yes, I remember when this happened, it was a bummer .. but taught us the valuable lesson that the hardware manufacturer can give, but also take away. At least it kind of kicked off a tooling market ..
Incidentally, apropos onboard assemblies, in my retro collection I have a Commodore PC running an ancient DOS, and it is unique because of two reasons: it has DEBUG.com, and .. the machine is infected with one of the very early viruses of the era.
So, if you know the right path to take on boot, you can get the virus to infect things, under the debugger, and see it in action.
DEBUG.com was for me, a complete boon of a tool, so to speak, back in the day. It was just enough assembler/debugger to be able to do very effective things.
Anyway, Z80 REPL is delightful, I want a 6502 REPL now, and can't stop thinking about how to get one on the Atmos..
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