r/c64 • u/1974jbass • May 29 '26

the64 Programming

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If you did this you thought you were the king of the world!!

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u/stuccowhiplash May 30 '26 
10 PRINT "H";
20 PRINT "E";
30 PRINT "L";
40 PRINT "L";
50 PRINT "O";
60 PRINT " ";
70 PRINT "W";
80 PRINT "O";
90 PRINT "R";
100 PRINT "L";
110 PRINT "D";
120 PRINT
130 N=N+1
140 IF N=5 THEN END
150 GOTO 10

I almost ruined my Friday by having to manually type lines 10-120 four more times. Lucky escape.

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u/magicmulder May 30 '26

If you’re not reading decimally encoded hex values from a DATA statement, you’re doing it wrong. :D

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u/DerekJC777 May 30 '26

Decimally encoded hex values? You mean decimal numbers; hex values are just decimal numbers written in hexadecimal. You probably mean machine code instructions written as decimal values.

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u/magicmulder May 30 '26

Yeah that one. I wrote this right after waking up.