64 Bites - Season 3 - Joysticks, Data Structures, Strings and Logic

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Commodore 64 Programming Screencasts

Here's what you get (bare facts):

• 9 videos (50+ minutes in total)
  
• transcripts (13000+ words)
  
• source code examples (10000+ LOC)
  
• access to 64bitesVIP Facebook group, where you can get help
  
• plenty of exercises to solve on your own
  
• online streaming
  
• download with no DRM
  
• one time payment (no monthly/annual fees)
  

You WILL learn following in Assembly:

• How to print Strings in during compilation and at runtime
  
• Compare handling null-terminated strings used in C with Pascal-like length-prepended strings
  
• Use KERNAL - the operating system of C64 to print strings easily with CHROUT routine
  
• Master the PETSCII encoding allowing you to format strings and screen easily
  
• How to use the open-source 64spec library to test programs and learn assembly
  
• Use boolean operations AND, ORA, EOR to check and manipulate bitfields
  
• Read joystick input using continuous polling.
  
• Create a base for rogue-like game controlled with joysticks
  
• Use namespaces like structs in C to refactor the code.
  
• Learn compilation-time data structures to clean up the code even further.