What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth?
What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth?
I dont remember the age, but it was before Kindergarten, thought men came into the house at night to load the next days shows into the TV.
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tias @discuss.tchncs.de I started learning BASIC when I was 7 and used to think that the POKE command was a magical incantation that could do anything. Like you could make an entire game with a single POKE. You just had to find the right one.
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5 0 Reply𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍 @midwest.social
You were only part wrong; POKE is magic that can do almost anything. You just have to call it a bunch.
At least, on 6502 systems, in the days of static memory layout operating systems, it was.
4 0 Replysunbeam60 @lemmy.one What about PEEK and DATA? You definitely need some PEEK and DATA statements too.
2 0 ReplyEmoDuck @sh.itjust.works I thought for a second you ment a different kind of basic
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