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Personally, Compute! magazine was my goto for games... The fact it autocheck the checksum at the end of each line was a sanity saver!

Anyone else remember the hex code dumps they had for entering/checking machine language programs? I still remember going thru 84 screens of the stuff to get an awesome monitor program with assembly/disassembly functionality!

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Personally I preferred the basic listings to the machine language ones, with the asm listings somewhere in the middle. With the basic listings you could understand what you were typing in as you did it. With ml you’re just a monkey typing in numbers. Sure you could disassemble it at that point (if you had a disassembler), but the barrier to reaching that understanding was so much higher than with basic listings.

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