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I didn't watch the whole video, but I scanned through it and didn't notice anything I didn't already learn when I was a teenager 25 years ago.

In a way it was easier to learn all about the C64 in the 80s because it was new and relevant (and I had a lot of time and was obsessed), but on the other hand the documentation and tools freely available now are so much better that anyone learning this from scratch now has an advantage.

http://codebase64.org/doku.php seems rather good, for example.




Even though the hardware is very simple by today's standards, new techniques are still being invented.

Also, people are still figuring out why certain hardware 'glitches' happen and how to prevent them. For instance: http://www.linusakesson.net/scene/safevsp/


Wow, my pro-Sweden bias just got another boost, that guy is quite talented. I usually don't like chiptunes, but he managed to make a pretty good one: http://www.linusakesson.net/music/sidstuff/chipful-of-love.p...




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