Simons basic for C64 - Lesson 1 - commands Pause, Flash, Off, Bflash, Colour, Disk, Dir

Описание: 🎮 RETRO CORNER
🖥️ SIMON'S BASIC – Lesson One

In this episode, we begin a new tutorial series dedicated to the legendary Simon's BASIC extension for the Commodore 64.
If you're already familiar with standard CBM BASIC and its limitations, it’s time to step outside those boundaries and explore a far more powerful and comfortable programming environment.

Simon's BASIC is one of the most famous and widely used C64 extensions, adding a huge number of commands for graphics, colors, sound, sprites, and disk operations.

In this first lesson, we cover:

a short introduction to Simon's BASIC and its background
why the cartridge version was the most practical solution
how to use Simon's BASIC with emulators (CCS64 and VICE)
basic commands such as PAUSE, COLOUR, FLASH, OFF and BFLASH
easier and safer disk handling using the DISK and DIR commands

The goal of this series is not to list every single command, but to focus on the ones that are truly useful and make programming on the C64 much more enjoyable.

If you love retro computers, Commodore 64, classic BASIC programming, and old-school computing vibes – this series is for you.
📼 Lesson two is coming soon, stay tuned!

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