https://lookbehindyou.de/en/product/for-basic-to-one-liners/ publishing extravaganza Sat, 13 Dec 2025 20:46:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://lookbehindyou.de/en/product/for-basic-to-one-liners/#comment-38282 Tue, 24 Jun 2025 06:21:23 +0000 https://lookbehindyou.de/?post_type=product&p=23534#comment-38282 A great wealth of technical information for the (majority) of C64 Basic coding enthusiasts. The title explains the book’s focus – “one liner” – programming, which is a niche area of coding. There is so much detailed analysis of how to squeeze more “run cycles” out of the old C64’s processing of Basic. It’s a real gem, just to read about which commands or ways of presenting a standard line of code, can return a faster response from the system. There are “timing” tests on all the examples, and they seem to accurately relate to my tests of the same code sequences. The reading format is a bit hard at first, due to the “one liner” outcome it’s been written for, there are many short and sharp specialised segments of information throughout. Use the index and find some command or topic you’re interested in. Check out the specialised system “pokes” (list) in the back of the book, and throughout, for some really handy next level helping functions for the Basic programmer.

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