Breaking down someone else’s old assembly code that I converted into Turbo Macro Pro format. Surely I’m not the only person who would rather reverse engineer assembly by printing it out right? #commodore #6502forever

Walking among dinosaurs

Chuck Peddle was one of the great chip designers of all time. His observation on the show floor at CES in 1977 seems on a repeat cycle. 2023 is shaping up to be an interesting year for many companies.

If you had taken a snapshot at that show, you knew what was going to happen to the computer industry,” says Peddle. “I was walking among the dinosaurs while they were dying. They had lost the momentum. The momentum was building under their feet and they didn’t have a fucking clue.(Brian Bagnall, Commodore- A Company on the edge)

Converting my favorite Maze program from Machine Language to Turbo Macro Pro. Wouldn’t be complete without a machine code vs BASIC speed comparison. You know, for science. Article on how this one works by the weekend. Probably. #commodore