Nectarine
Infamous OneLiner
mirrorbird
(22:03:29)
you can do a lot in 5 bytes! -- well. no. no you can't
mirrorbird
(22:03:11)
ah... but it showed it as a hex
Agemixer
(22:02:49)
in fack on a disk it is actually 5 bytes, some groups made use of this diskname suffix, like... "-(B)-"
mirrorbird
(22:02:16)
basically copy-paste without a mouse.
mirrorbird
(22:02:01)
if you move (with arrow keys) away from the line you are typing, then you are moving a second cursor, and you can move it somewhere and hold down the COPY key, which will copy that part you moved over.
Agemixer
(22:01:36)
"no idea". Well you can take a quick look if it was tourvoriginal disk or some copy (filecopy only, ofcourse)
mirrorbird
(22:01:27)
there's a really nice BBC BASIC editing feature, i haven't seen it on other machines (actually i think the Amstrad CPC had sth similar? but i can't remember) --
Agemixer
(22:00:31)
and the c64 cursors... sigh... well it is +2:more keys off the matrix really, 8x8 = 64 keys only
mirrorbird
(21:59:46)
so what is the purpose of that "disk type ID" byte?
Agemixer
(21:58:40)
yeah hehe some old c64 games assume that too instead of just.... joystick
