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		vintermann 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sid Meier's Pirates – In-depth (2017) That was a common way to code in BASIC on the commodore 64. It's not 100% in BASIC, sure, but you can get it to list the program contents on the READY prompt. "8-bit show and tell" has a YouTube video on it.

vidarh 4 months ago [–]

I just posted the link to the 8-bit show and tell video, right before seeing your comment. I agree. The bulk of the logic of the game seems to be BASIC, with the bits that'd be too slow otherwise sped up with machine code.

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