At 04:25 PM 8/21/01 -0400, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
>I worked for a while with a Physics major who'd learned machine-language
>programming for the IBM PC using DEBUG.COM. He also had no conception of
>source file structure.
In the early 80s I worked at Sight and Sound Music Software,
which had titles for the C-64 like Kawasaki Music Synthesizer
and Kawasaki Rhythm Rocker.
Ryo was already an established musician, and still is. See
http://www.google.com/search?q=ryo+kawasaki . However, he
also coded for the C-64 without an assembler. He just used
the debugger. There was no source code. We first figured
this out when we asked him how he did a certain effect,
and he started reciting the hex opcodes. He didn't really
know the mnemonics, he just memorized how to create the
hex to match the opcodes he wanted.
- John
Received on Tue Aug 21 2001 - 15:42:00 BST