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"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> In my particular example, of course, none of that applied. Being able to write
> directly to memory from BASIC on the Acorns meant you could store large amounts
> of data more efficiently without having to resort to assembler. And, since the
> screen memory was in main RAM, you could write to the screen by storing your
> pixel values directly to that block... :)
No need to tell me that - I had an Amstrad CPC, which featured 16K of display
RAM so there was plenty of poking you could do :)
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