[hanamizu]

LOAD “*”,8,1

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Man, that brings back memories. Commodore 64 and at first I couldn’t afford any storage, so when you switched it off, the program was gone. Typing basic for a half hour to get a C64 balloon to float across the TV screen was just magic.

[the_Watchman]

I believe that on the C-64, they were called “sprites” and there were eight of them.

[jstolzen]

LOAD “*”,8,1 Man, that brings back memories. Commodore 64 and at first I couldn’t afford any storage, so when you switched it off, the program was gone. Typing basic for a half hour to get a C64 balloon to float across the TV screen was just magic.

You C-64 guys had it easy with your sprites. The Vic-20 with a 1.02 *M*Hz (not Ghz) processor and filling graphic registers with hexadecimal bitmap values while chasing the raster around the screen to avoid flicker.

Good times..I made my living on that box for a lot of years and still have the EPROMs to prove it..:)