Ed Huntress wrote:
"Winston" wrote in message
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CaveLamb wrote:

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Thing is, Iggy, once you think the way the machine works and
have routines, Assembly language can go together very quickly.

And you have complete and total control of the system.
And Assembly can be a lot of fun, too!

--Winston

I found assembly (8080A, Z80, and 80C85) fairly easy after learning to
program my HP RPN calculator. d8-)

Anybody with a function brain stem can learn 8080, et al.
They were meant to be easy.

The Z-80 mnemonics made more sense to me.


On the slow old desktop computers (and especially on my RS M100 -- what was
the clock speed, 1.5 kHz??), a dab of assembly here in there made it much
easier to tolerate the interpreted BASIC that was churning away on top...


There was this one Kaypro that I had ran 12 MHZ.
Interpreted BASIC was ok on that.

But compiled BASIC made the world go 'round...
Also ran Pascal, C (just ordinary C) Nevada Fortran.

But the best buzz was AZM the Z80 Macro Assembler.

They were fun days.
You could still do things . . .

March some dots across the screen and make your fortune
in the video game market.


--

Richard Lamb