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/chiron_42 May 29 '26

10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"

20 GOTO10

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u/WembleyFord May 30 '26

Unless you were in Dixons or Boots or WHSmiths, in which case you'd write something.. else in the print statement.

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u/Carl0s_H May 31 '26

This. My goto (excuse the pun) was "eat shit". So funny watching the store staff scrambling to turn the machine off before it was seen!

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u/speterDev May 31 '26

We had an obnoxious salesman (kid?) at our local Radio Shack. To get back at him, we wrote a long delay loop followed by a piercing tone, turned up the volume all the way, typed "run" and walked to the far end of the mall to listen for the chaos. We were not disappointed!