We draw some dragon curves with Logo on the Commodore 64 inspired by Jurassic Park

Introduction

We’ve done 10PRINT on a lot of machines.

But we haven’t done a comparison between Rust and C.

Wax

Over the years, I’ve looked for an Assembler for the VIC-20. Sure, there are great cross-assemblers like Kick Assembler, but I wanted something that would run on the VIC-20 itself.

Over the years, I’ve been on a silly quest to do 10PRINT on as many things as I can. They end up on X, here, or sometimes both.

My son, now 25, was a McNuggets fan. Can you blame him? They’re delicious. He’s always been into numbers and puzzles, so I introduced him to the McNuggets problem when he was about 10.

Back to the basics with basic

Let’s say for a moment that we’ve got an ordered list of numbers.

I’ve done a lot of silly math, ciphers and asked a lot of my vintage hardware on this site over the years. But I’ve not talked a ton about optimizing code for faster results.