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Comment by tverbeure | original | How did Woz write the Apple 1 BASIC before building the computer?
[−]tverbeure · 2026-11-15 Sun 00:13 UTC · link
I got my first computer, a C64, when I was 14 in 1985, and wrote my 6510 assembly in paper as well.

You had to carefully calculate the address distance for a branch instruction. The release of DISMON was a revolution: suddenly the computer did all of that for you. It even supported moving pieces of code to a different address to make space for inserting more instructions somewhere!

[−]intrasight · 2026-11-15 Sun 00:47 UTC · link
All I had was computer manuals in 1981. I wrote several assembly language programs on paper.