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Thank you for putting in the effort to explain all the build tools in such great detail!

Could you please provide some hints on how to load a FORTH (HES) ROM on VICE for VIC-20?

Just curious, but in what step is it compiling the code, when you save it, or when you run it? I saw you run it, and thought I missed something. I learned Cobol in college, in the early '90s. I took a couple courses where we used it, one for JCL, and one for Cobol itself. My memory is in the JCL course, we used VT3270 terminals hooked up to an MVS mainframe. We wrote some Cobol in that. There was one part where we were submitting forms through the terminal. I don't know what that was in connection to, but the reason that stuck with me is when I got on the web, the way we submitted forms through a web browser felt very familiar. It took me back to the forms we submitted through the 3270 terminal. It was the same sort of action. You'd receive a form on the screen. You'd fill it in, then hit a "Send" button on the keyboard, which would send the form to the mainframe, and you'd get a response form back. What we were told was these forms were submitted to the mainframe using emulated punch cards, since the mainframe still expected cards. The response forms may have been emulated cards, as well. What I remember about the Cobol class was we used DOS PCs to edit and compile our programs. The development package we used was made by a company that's still around, as I recall. Though, I forget the name now. I just remember seeing ads for it in the last 10 years. As I remember, it used the Cobol87 standard, at the time. It was a nice environment. It had a competent editor and debugger, and I could understand the error messages. While the syntax and program structure was easy for me to pick up, it was an adjustment getting used to how it did records, because I thought they'd be like Pascal records, where the fields were local to the record type. Not so. They were global. The record structure just existed to group the fields for reads and writes. So, I had to think back to how I programmed in Basic (where all variables were global) to get my bearings on how to name my record fields, so they wouldn't clash with each other.

Any news on Yves Han? That's some genius work.

wow. started watching from the sudoku/cbmprg tut vid and this was amazing. great channel, super duper instructional!

You have a play list with the White Lightning Forth videos, but the list is in reverse order compared to the part numbers, which makes it difficult to play them.

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thanks for this video, man, I realy appreciat. I just need some help with 'Problems', I got 46 following along, but everything works fine, I don't know if that could be an issue in future codes.

I love how this vid happens to contain one the easiest explanations of pointers I’ve seen over the years.

I just learned a function in vice that I haven't considered. I've been jumping into the monitor via snapshot entry. NICE!! Now I can have two windows so I don't lose my place while coding. THANKS A BUNCH!! It's WARNOCK ...and yes, I'm back. LOL

I got the GEOS for my C64 and I thought it was the coolest thing. I did a lot of stuff with it.

@My Developer Thoughts I dunno why, but I'll try to save the custom colors border using the command key+s (<- + s). I only get the message "tmp signature missing". What's the problem?

Wow! A lot of information packed into this video. Very well explained. Easier than reading the details in the manual. You clearly explained how to put the parts together. Now if I could find Pascal that would work with a 1581. I have the original binder, disk, and manual.

Robin at 8-bit show and tell on YT swears by turbo macro pro. It's a cart-based assembler with REU support. (ram expander cart) Looks pretty swank

Nice introduction to the Super C Like how you handle a 2 drive system. Ti beats swapping disk with one drive. My1541 drive still works with USB plugin. I looked at structs in the cdemo.c program and its complicated. Can you do a simple struct demo? I can't get the strcpy to work with it, or print out the results. All I get are errors. However, I have Spinnaker's Power C and structs work fine. Perhaps a struct named Book, with Title, Author as type char. Pages as integer, and Price as float. I'm using Vice Emulator to get the speed up benefit. Super C64 V2.02, which I don't have, works with Ramdisk program described in the Transactor. I simply copied the files to Ram disk manually and make a Vice Snapshot. Wayne

Very clear narration, you've done well. By the way, I had one of those monitor cartridges back in the day, convenient actually.

That sprite looks like a blue euterus.

Looking out for more video's!

Thank you , You have made it all seem so easy , all the other CBM prog clips ive seen assume you already use it.

Thanks for this great video!

what's the easiest way to get a program online into Commodore VIC-20?

beautiful video, very interesting, also explained very well

That is nuts!

wow, what a great primer on using cbmprogstudio! thanks much!

Awesome!

Anyone else remember the weird banding, the background had on a TV back in the 80's?

i386 is as far back as I care to explore. Videos like these tell me that anything earlier has zero productive value even if nuclear war should wipe out all the new computers. At least Word for Windows was usable.

This is really good! Waiting for next one!

I've got to agree with other comments on here, I wish I'd know about this back in the day. Your delivery on this subject was excellent, I've learn't so much as I followed along on my vice emulator. I'm now inspired to actually try writting some Assembly code, thank you. More guides please!!!

Using the SID Player Editor, I'm receiving an "Illegal Duration Error" when attempting to use eighth notes. It happens if I set the tempo to 160, but doesn't happen if I use a lower tempo like 100 or omit it entirely. Edit: Actually, I found a newer (ml-based) version of Craig Chamberlain's player/editor and the problem seems to be fixed. It's also a LOT faster than the Basic version.

I used GEOS a lot for school projects and just for fun when I was young (10-15 yo) but I didn't understand everything. I had seen the colored icons in magazines but I didn't know how to do that. And I never understood where the scrap text icons came from and what they were. And loading took forever with my single 1541-II. Nowadays I also have the full setup with dual drives (incl 1581) and REU. Unfortunately those expansions were 20 years late. 😅

Thank you for this very well made and properly explainted walk thru of how to set up in vice. I always wanted to try this. And now I know how :) Thank you.

Hello Mr. Thoughts and since you're not too good to answer back mostly the latest visitors. I had saved, with much effort $300 in 1985 with the notion of purchasing a really fancy muzzle loading two shot smokepole pellet thrower. A visit to Sears close to that fateful Christmas changed my long held plans and dreams when I saw this fancy stacked display, chest high of Commdore 128's. Never got that you know what. Wasn't until later that I owned a couple of C-64s. I never had to fool with the cornbball GEOS....though I knew about it. Eventually I owned two 1571's and when I first hooked up the second drive...boy was that a revelation! I could go on an on....

I have Leo Brodie's hardcopy book of "Starting Forth" just for the love of the language on my bookshelf. It would be one of more influential books in IT, with early demonstration on topics like refactoring, if the language wasn't too much on the fringes.

I've had this as a little kid on ZX Spectrum and had immediately fallen in love with Forth at the time. Though I didn't truly understand and know how to write in it or create it from scratch until years later. It helped me a lot to be a well rounded developer. Still love the language. It's a really magical feature of a language, when you can compile yourself to higher and higher levels of abstraction and still care about efficiency if you want. It's also something I miss with practically all programming languages nowadays that narrow your thought process to be expressed with existing primitives.

Very nice. ran fine on Linux Mint 20.3 Una

Just a brief remark about parts 1&2 of the series. Did everyone notice the printer drivers list included the HP Laserwriter. Those were a $2-3K at the time, tells you how seriously BS was targeting the hobbyist and professional environment with their products.

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I'll have to get back to the serial routines in durexForth. This is better than the way I was using VICE.

My memory of GEOS is very limited in part because I'd moved on by 1988, This demonstration and particularly the evolution using more hardware resources is fantastic

This is above me. But this video is bookmarked.

I remember writing an internet "browser" complete with links and images on geos. This way years before HTML with all the competing browsers loosing because of hype for mosaic. It's a shame mosaic copied Microsoft hyper text and became standard on the Internet. So many other Internet software did a better job , now we are stuck with the www.

Forty years have passed and I am trying again to get to grips with using this software package. I am actually following this on a new "THEC64". Everything in this video worked fine but when assembling the code with ASSEMBLER64 at time:6:40 instead of "PASS1 PASS2" I got a listing of the code and the next two lines on the screen were all printed with double characters e.g. EERRRROORRSS == 0000000000. I still got a READY. and the next steps running the programme worked fine. Thanks for making the videos. Very useful and easy to follow.

I learned about this from @"8-Bit Show And Tell". This is a snippet to setup NMI (non-maskable interrupt) so that when you hit the RESTORE key you end up back in TMP, source in tact. Even after a soft reset of course. ``` TMP = $8000 ;POINT NMI TO TMP LDA #<TMP STA $0318 LDA #>TMP STA $0319 ``` Just put it at the top of your executable code. Remember to remove before shipping ... note the .if family of directives to do conditional assembly might be useful here. That is it! Enjoy.

Very, very well explained. Interestingly, this is exactly how things were done in the very early days of computing. Every CPU ever made always had (and will have) a mnemonic (human-readable text) version of every instruction/opcode (and variant) of the instruction set - purely because writing in machine code (numbers only) was never done (except as an academic exercise), for obvious reasons. The total number of mnemonic instructions then comprised that CPU's 'assembly language'. Programs would be written in assembly and the numeric version of each instruction/opcode (and operand if applicable) would be hand written against this. The operator would then enter in the numeric version to load the program - exactly what you see here. The BASIC loader program in this video then does the same thing as the early operators, poking each opcode/operand into memory.

I wanted to check if emulating HD for C64 is even possible and I ran into this ABSOLUTE GEM of a channel. Thank you so much for all the videos!

This highlights the stark limitations of the C64. I still have my childhood C64, but using it for anything “serious” really is frustrating, whereas using an Amiga is much more like using any modern machine when it comes to being able to multitask and arguably much better when it comes to developing in C.

Iused to have Lazer Basic by Oasis software. I never managed to understand it or use it,. Any chance of walking us through Lazer Basic when you complete this series?

Thanks for such a thorough series! You make things very easy to follow.

COBOL, what an awful language. I would have been reaching for C or Pascal or even Forth given the hardware options - but it is cool to see how they ported great evil to the system so people could play IBM mainframe at home.