Hello, * On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 06:07:02PM +0200 Gerrit Heitsch wrote: > On 04/19/2012 04:22 PM, HÁRSFALVI Levente wrote: > >Yeah. From the other hand, Basic 3.5 and Tedmon usually comes very > >handy. IMHO the Plus/4 has been way more friendly to beginners than > >Commodore's other "cheap" machines. > > Yes... That still annoys me... The C64 had all the great > capabilities but no BASIC support for it, not even a monitor > (something like TIM from the CBM series would have been enough for > me) while the 264 series had the great BASIC 3.5 but lacked the > sound and video capabilities. In fact, I always considered this to be an advantage of the C64. Why? Everyone trying to do sound and/or video was forced to learn about peek, poke, and the like. From there, it was not very far to learn assembly. With many other machines with their fancy BASIC, people got stuck with the BASIC. Thus, they never considered really learning about the inner parts of their machine. Regards, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://www.trikaliotis.net/ Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2012-04-19 20:00:21
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