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Sources for some old BASIC games

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SYNC and the 65CE02 instruction timing

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75 Questions

BBC/Acorn BASIC, what made it so fast?

How good was Woz's FP code?

MOS 8502, just a 6510B?

Why are branches relative in many 8-bit CPUs?

ZSPL language, anyone heard of it?

Was 1991's Hellcats the first instance of incremental screen updates?

Did any micros use the 6502 BCD mode in their OS?

Origins of the “array like” strings in BASIC

New 6502 BASICs?

GOTO (etc) to a non-existent line?

Odd tokenizing in Integer BASIC

Was the MC6800 a PDP-11 or PDP-8?

Sources for some old BASIC games

Radio Shack computer trainer kit?

Unix on the H11?

Cassette tape storage formats

PET space arcade game with surprisingly good graphics

Who wrote the MS BASIC on the PET/C64/etc?

PET as a terminal

Why did the Atari's have such clear displays?

String libraries for BASIC

SYNC and the 65CE02 instruction timing

PET game, enemies attempt to break through several concentric sets of walls

When did the 65C02 become available?

Is a normal B&W TV good enough for 80-column text?

BASIC on the Nova?

MS BASIC, access a DIMed variable with no index?

Any historical references to links between JOSS and BASIC?

In MS BASIC, why is NEXT faster than NEXT I?

Where can I read the article from Personal Computer World, Nov 1978, which introduced the 8th Rugg/Feldman test program?