33-Line C64 Sprite Editor in BASIC
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Arrays and string arrays in BASIC are simple and powerful.

I like the syntax-- A(B,C) or S$(B).

Makes me wonder. Writing a BASIC interpreter with a strong focus on the power of DIM and array operations would be interesting.

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READYCode now has a built in debugger that lets you set breakpoints in your Commodore BASIC code and step through line-by-line. You can view variable values in real time and even change them as you debug.

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F256K2 MIDI Playback Demo Lights Up passport.mid
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Switchbox Revisted: Faster Switchbox on the Commodore 64
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Nathana\"el Beau, Beno\^it Crabb\'e
RETROcode: Leveraging a Code Database for Improved Natural Language to Code Generation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05759

enhancing the model's efficiency by integrating extensive memory. Our findings indicate that RETROcode not only outperforms similar-sized traditional architectures on test sets but also approaches the effectiveness of the much larger Codex model, [4/5 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05759v1]

\cite{RETRO} for sequence-to-sequence models, utilizing a large code database as an auxiliary scaling method. This approach, diverging from simply enlarging model and dataset sizes, allows RETROcode to leverage a vast code database for prediction, [3/5 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05759v1]

statement-program pairs. However, increasing model size and data volume for performance gains also raises computational demands and risks of overfitting. Addressing these challenges, we present RETROcode, a novel adaptation of the RETRO architecture [2/5 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05759v1]

Nathana\"el Beau, Beno\^it Crabb\'e: RETROcode: Leveraging a Code Database for Improved Natural Language to Code Generation https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05759 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.05759 https://arxiv.org/html/2504.05759