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From: Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: The DOS 3.3 SYS.COM Bug Hunt
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:54:34 -0300
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Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> writes:

> On 2025-02-25, Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
>> I never used DOS as a programmer, so it wasn't nostalgic to me, but I
>> enjoyed seeing how simpler things were back then and how programs like
>> debug could help you to see what was going on.  I was reading about 6502
>> assembly recently and I became very interested in getting closer to that
>> simplicity.  The booklet author remarked that modern x86 assembly isn't
>> really meant for programmers, but compilers.  I had never really thought
>> of that, but it made a lot of sense to me.  So maybe I should indeed
>> look into an older, simpler machine to enjoy the low level of things.
>
> To validate your post: I think some C=64 retro-enthusiasts who have
> never touched a real C=64, and the same can be said of other 8-bit
> platforms.  Once for fun i wrote a program for the ZX Spectrum, and i
> did not have access to the real hardware. Though i can remember
> tinkering with a Timex Sinclair 1000.
>
> For that matter, 8bitworkshop supports both C=64 and ZX Spectrum
> development in corporate web browsers.
>
> http://8bitworkshop.com/
>
> See also:
>
> https://x64.halb.it/

Very cool stuff!  But I'd believe I have a certain bug to expose
relative to 8bitworkshop.com.  The machine screen first appears with a
beautiful logo and then eventually it looks like an old buggy TV with
red lanes going up the screen:

  https://0x0.st/8AwL.png

This is Firefox 133.0.3 (amd64) on OpenBSD 7.6.