Hamurabi and Similar Games on CP/M
Hamurabi is probably the best known land and resource management game on CP/M. However, there are a few other similar text-based games that sought to extend the concept such as Dukedom and Kingdom. T...
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Word Processors on the Commodore VIC-20
Word processing is possible on the VIC-20 and can be surprisingly comfortable despite the small screen text area. Here I will show a variety of word processors each of which handles the 22 column rest...
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Getting the Address of BASIC Variables on the VIC-20
Getting the address of a BASIC variable can be useful if you want to pass data to a machine code routine or want to access the bytes of a variable directly to improve speed and reduce garbage collectio...
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Saving and Loading Memory on the VIC-20
Saving and loading memory is quite easy on the VIC-20 once you know how. However, it isn't obvious how to do this and therefore this article will present a few simple ways of doing it from BASIC and A...
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Advanced Use of .LBR files on CP/M
Lots of utilities make use of .LBR (Library) files to provide extra facilities such as the ability to run commands from archives or mount them as if they were drives. This article shows some more adva...
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