On 03/10/2007, Julian Daich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 03 October 2007 10:27:32 Amos Shapira wrote: > > You needed "poke" and "pick"(sp?) to do ANYTHING on those boxes, as far > as > > I remember ( a good intro to computer hardware, as you learned about CPU > > port numbers in no time :). > > Actually it was not the case for all of those little boxes. Is the reason > why > I then decided to have a ZX Spectrum :)
Of course not - It was a glaring feature of the Vic20/C64. The ZX had such instructions in basic too but they weren't require for everything as was the case on vic20/C64. My personal first *owned* was a ZX Spectrum 48k (and not long ago I threw away the book of the source code of its ROM). --Amos
