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NOP is $EA, of course, and... um...
...sorry, I'm just a Commodore 64 scrub, I don't know nothing about this high and mighty Intel 8086 nonsense.
[looking up]
...it's 0x90 on IA-32? WHAT? Someone told me every processor used 0xEA because that was commonly agreed and readily apparent. ...guess I was wrong
My daughter told me the other day, "I bet I could figure out a Commodore 64 if I had one."
Good luck figuring out LOAD "*",8,1 by yourself, kid.
She meant she could figure it out just playing around with it, not reading a manual or asking around. I told her she'd have to read a manual.
Erm I might be showing my inexperience here.
Is there no equivalent to
man LOADin the commodore world? Or even justhelp?Not that I remember.
That thing had 16K of ROM. Every byte was sacred. Only manual was on paper.
@umbraroze @FlyingSquid oh noo... some guy spoiled everything on Youtube!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DVEQua5bADs&pp=ygUaY29tbW9kb3JlIDY0IHNwaWVsIHN0YXJ0ZW4%3D#dialog
I can't tell if you're joking and deliberately invoking the original comic above