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metalux
Registered: Aug 2011
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Old university C64 programming courses?
I'm learning C64 assembler the hard way: reading tutorials, demo sources and forum posts, relatively non-academic in other words. While I do have access to some reference documentation, like the Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide, a big C64 assembler bible would have been helpful. So, have anyone ever heard if there were any university c64 programming courses in the 80's? Have you heard of anything like that? Imagine writing an old C64 assembler exam! That would be fun.
It shouldn't be an impossible scenario. I myself have taken some funny university courses in programming languages like Haskell and MIPS assembly back in the days, but I've never heard of the Commodore 64 in the academic world. |
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Exile
Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 58 |
We used the BBC microcomputers, english and german models at highschool in 1987. Mostly basic coding, assembly was a bridge to far.
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T.M.R
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Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 749 |
Quoting ConradI wasn't at school in the 80s, but in the UK I doubt there were such thing as Commodore 64-based programming courses... I'm certain there were 6502 assembly courses at school, but were targeted more on British-made computers like the BBC Micro, which had a 6502 CPU.
i did "computing" at GCSE which was BASIC programming on Z80-based Link 480Z machines and started an A level in the subject which was Pascal on BBC Masters from what i saw. i'd already taught myself 6502 by that point using a book called VIC 20 Machine Code, the C64 Programmer's Reference Guide and lots of experimentation. |
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Wile Coyote
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Registered: Mar 2004
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On the subject of computers and school - I never forget, the time computers came out. School being school, set up a room called, imaginatively *The Computer Room*. It was serious business. Access to the room was granted to a select few. You had to be in top for Maths, and be top of the top. This narrowed things down to about 6 people in the entire school. Thats maths teachers for you.
There was a small window in the door to The Room. Through it 4x BBC Micros 2x Acorn Electrons and 1x unknown large black computer with black and white monitor could be observed. One lunch time I managed to sneak into The Room, where a programmer was playing a basic looking horizontal scroll shootem up.
I along with others opted to buy ZX Spectrums, and turned to a life of piracy ;D |
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Style
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 498 |
At my highschool we had a room full of Microbees, but in year 9 the school splurged and after a review period (where several machines were loaned and tested) we got a couple of classrooms full of Amiga 1000s.
Them being the future and all, over PCs and Macs :)
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Achim
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Registered: Jan 2010
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Last year the University of Bielefeld offered a c64 course for game coding: http://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/kvv_publ/publ/vd;jsessionid=8FFD07..
I doubt that there were any c64 courses in german schools in the 80's. My school had a bunch of Apple II computers. There were two courses: LOGO for the masses (seriously) and Pascal for the advanced (like me, ehm...). I taught myself 6502 ML on my c64. I still remember sitting in class and thinking on how to write a packer. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
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Quote:I doubt that there were any c64 courses in german schools in the 80's.
commodore *did* sponsor PET and C64 setups (much more than apple did actually, at least in germany) - and i have seen them at a bunch of schools (i ehrm... tested a few =D).
the school where my father is teaching physics was using them until the mid 90s or so. |
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TPM
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 110 |
Quote:Last year the University of Bielefeld offered a c64 course for game coding: http://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/kvv_publ/publ/vd;jsessionid=8FFD07..
cool! :D |
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MagerValp
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1078 |
Quoting AchimLast year the University of Bielefeld offered a c64 course for game coding: http://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/kvv_publ/publ/vd;jsessionid=8FFD07..
Where can we see the output from last year's students? |
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chancer
Registered: Apr 2003
Posts: 347 |
at college we did a very small bit on 6502 or BBC micro as part of electronics, a sub section of the B-tec we were studying.. you could type in the commands from the basic prompt as you would basic..
Z80 was used on another course mainly to do with electronics.
on a HND later we did a very small bit of 8088 (from debug in dos prompt)
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Achim
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Registered: Jan 2010
Posts: 28 |
@MagerValp: I dropped Mr. Hegel (sic!) a mail. He's one of the three teachers. Let's see... |
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