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Where should I look for retro programming?

I’ve interest to program on vintage hardware and on emulations. I don’t know where to start or even if there are tutorials about that subject here on SoloLearn. I exclude modern versions of old programming languages (CLisp, C, Fortran and Assembler)

31st Oct 2018, 4:55 PM
hydralisk98
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This subculture is somewhat hard to find without a magic word from ~1980's. * In any emu- old hardware search, add the word "demoscene" to your search. You'll get all the retro vintage codes you can handle, a very large portion of the content themed in oldskoolhacker styles. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene More: https://www.scene.org/ .
31st Oct 2018, 7:57 PM
Kirk Schafer
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These would be the most important to know, when it comes to languages: C - 70s, K&R in 78 and K&R2/ASCII in 89 (ASCII changes just function declarations and is more type safe) Resources: K&R(2) FORTRAN 77/COBOL/ALGOL - simple but limited programming languages. Resources: You can find tutorials online, but don't be afraid to read the standards with these ones. Generally less then 50 pages. Random assembly languages: MIPS, 8086, Comadore 64 -- most serious old programming was done like this, at least until C took over. Resources: use QEMU to emulate them on modern systems. BASIC: a thing used to program trivial things. Was mostly used by kids to learn.
31st Oct 2018, 8:31 PM
Vlad Serbu
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