Re: The DOS 3.3 SYS.COM Bug Hunt

On 2025-02-25, Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:

I never used DOS as a programmer, so it wasn't nostalgic to me, but I
enjoyed seeing how simpler things were back then and how programs like
debug could help you to see what was going on.  I was reading about 6502
assembly recently and I became very interested in getting closer to that
simplicity.  The booklet author remarked that modern x86 assembly isn't
really meant for programmers, but compilers.  I had never really thought
of that, but it made a lot of sense to me.  So maybe I should indeed
look into an older, simpler machine to enjoy the low level of things.

To validate your post: I think some C=64 retro-enthusiasts who have
never touched a real C=64, and the same can be said of other 8-bit
platforms.  Once for fun i wrote a program for the ZX Spectrum, and i
did not have access to the real hardware. Though i can remember
tinkering with a Timex Sinclair 1000.

For that matter, 8bitworkshop supports both C=64 and ZX Spectrum
development in corporate web browsers.

http://8bitworkshop.com/

See also:

https://x64.halb.it/