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Learn to program C on your Commodore 64 (C64) with Abacus Super-C.

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Learn to program C on your Commodore 64 (C64) with Abacus Super C. All of the code in this video can be downloaded from this GitHub repo: https://github.com/MyDeveloperThoughts/AbacusSuperC Abacus Super C Manual in PDF The Manual: https://archive.org/details/Super-C_1986_Abacus Disk Image for the C128 https://commodore.software/downloads/download/783-c128-c/16326-super-c-128-v3-02a Disk Image for the c64 https://commodore.software/downloads/download/100-c/15347-abacus-super-c-64-v2-03 The Transactor Magazine article comparing Super-C to C Power by Pro-Line Software https://www.commodore.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/the_transactor_vol07_05_1987_mar-www-commodore-ca.pdf 0:00 Intro 0:55 The CCP 1:55 What's on the disk 6:02 The C Editor 8:04 Hello World 13:12 Compiling Code 16:33 Linking Object Link Files 20:30 Running our program from BASIC 21:44 Exploring STDIO.H 24:23 Extra Text Area 25:25 printf and Constant Macros 27:05 Simple Pointers 30:54 More efficient way to Compile and Link 33:28 Fastest way to Compile and Link 34:41 Sprite Demo: Building and running 39:40 C Demo: Building and running 44:02 Speed comparison of Stock C64 vs JiffyDOS 46:01 C Demo and talk about features 49:11 Final thoughts

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