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		Joe_Cool 56 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting t... It was always awkward to do low level disk stuff by basically "remoting" into the drive to execute code. `OPEN 1,8,15,"N:NEWDISK,01":CLOSE 1` was always a weird way to format a floppy...

mschaef 56 days ago [–]

Knowing what I know now, I'd have appreciated it much more than I did at the time. (Also, fixing the link rate on the C64 would've been nice too.)

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