I watched all of that. Begrudgingly. So much video time.
A decade ago it would have been a text format blog post with screenshots and downloadable binaries, and perhaps the occasional demo video. The same amount of information could be consumed in 5 minutes.
Now we need to watch hours of overproduced youtube videos, because that's the way "creators get paid".
We should have gotten micropayments to work in browsers instead.
Google really did a number on the web.
moribvndvs
The modern maybe-AI generated, definitely SEO optimized method of writing where they spend 5 paragraphs restating the same thing in different ways when it could have been said in two sentences is unbearable.
Doctor_Fegg
Weird that the photo of the eBayed disk is a Maxell CF2 - a 3in disk! These were standard on the Amstrad 8-bits (CPC/PCW) and the Sinclair Spectrum +3, after Amstrad bought the rights to the Spectrum, but I’d never seen them on a C64.
yumraj
I scanned the article, not a single line of code sample.
Moving on…
AnimalMuppet
The language is MicroText (used to program the Commodore), for those who don't want to have to go to the article to find out that much.
andrewstuart
A better title would be "Former Star Wars actor and retro computing enthusiast Christian Simpson (Retro Recipes) finds lost programming language."
A decade ago it would have been a text format blog post with screenshots and downloadable binaries, and perhaps the occasional demo video. The same amount of information could be consumed in 5 minutes.
Now we need to watch hours of overproduced youtube videos, because that's the way "creators get paid".
We should have gotten micropayments to work in browsers instead.
Google really did a number on the web.