[darkpuppet]

SliverSteeda,Dec 14 2006, 03:32 PM Wrote:

darkpuppet,Dec 13 2006, 11:10 PM Wrote:bonus points if you can tell me what POKE 53280,0 and POKE 53281,0 did on the C64..

if it weren't for the old commodores, I wouldn't be able to tell you off the top of my head that C000 in hex = 49152 in decimal
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btw... turned the border black... god i feel old. :(
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53281 turned the border black.. 53280 turned the screen colour black. Then you could commodore-key 1 to change the cursor to white.

(btw.. poke to 'poke' values into memory, peek to 'peek' at values in memory).

While we're on the nerd reminiscing... we got our Vic-20 when i was 4 or 5 years old (I remember going to the stereo shop to pick up the computer, and then to mcdonald's for food, going home and playing space invaders).

a year later, our parents bought a 4Kb memory expansion that allowed you to draw and fill circles and squares on the screen via basic.

a year or so later, my uncle gave us his old commodore 64, and I wrote my first program using mainly print graphics and some simple logic pulled from the reference manual.

I never really looked back.

my dad got a toshiba laptop for work when I was in my early teens.. had me help install and setup Ashton Tate's dbase on it. That was my first experience with databases.... using such commands as "USE and REPLACE" (SQL's SELECT and UPDATE's precursors).

started working at computer stores building/fixing machines at 14.. tho not particularily successful as not too many adults would take the advice of a 14yr old (REMEMBER ME SASKATCHEWAN WHEAT POOL?! YOU SHOULD HAVE LISTENED, BUT YOU DIDN'T!!! )

*ahem*..

I'm back now..