Me: Don't gatekeep programming.
Also me: Folks should learn a bit of assembly before anything else so they can see just how wasteful most computing is today.
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@fundamental I grew up in the wrong country for z80, but I'm seriously considering making DOS games again.
@troublewithwords @fundamental The Z80 popped up in countless odd places. My understanding (purely rumor based, from GB hacker videos, void of personal experience) is that it throws more than a few nods at the 8080, so not that alien to a PC coder. There was a period where the z80 was popping up in washing machines and microwaves, before cheaper alternatives hit the market.
@sophia81 @troublewithwords the nice thing about the z80 over 8080 is how clean the I SA felt. More recently Atmel's AVRs had a great one, but usually other chips had a more muddled set of instructions
@troublewithwords A mixture of zachtronics and z80 does wonders at showing that computers are in fact very silly things.