I think the general idea that the VICII could use a range of addresses for one thing while the CPU used it for another was understood from the start.
But I would guess the sheer inventiveness & range of things people put the C64 to was/is astonishing, even to the wildest thinker on the development team.
Complete side note: The brain is a very strange thing. I read this post earlier and then started to so some work. I repeatedly found myself trying to type a double quote using SHIFT-2, which is the key combo for the PET and C64 (my first computers). Actually on the PET, it's not the 2 key, but the key where the 2 would be on a modern keyboard.
Weird the way 30+ year old muscle memory is invoked.
That really was weird. I just read the post and this comment and couldn't figure out what the point was. I used an Atari that also had the double quote on the 2 and completely forgot that's not where I type them now.
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I think the general idea that the VICII could use a range of addresses for one thing while the CPU used it for another was understood from the start.
But I would guess the sheer inventiveness & range of things people put the C64 to was/is astonishing, even to the wildest thinker on the development team.
Complete side note: The brain is a very strange thing. I read this post earlier and then started to so some work. I repeatedly found myself trying to type a double quote using SHIFT-2, which is the key combo for the PET and C64 (my first computers). Actually on the PET, it's not the 2 key, but the key where the 2 would be on a modern keyboard.
Weird the way 30+ year old muscle memory is invoked.
That really was weird. I just read the post and this comment and couldn't figure out what the point was. I used an Atari that also had the double quote on the 2 and completely forgot that's not where I type them now.
Color computer had it there too.
When I use or read about these old machines, that memory comes out.
Brains are weird.