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		pizza234 on Oct 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Commodore Amiga could get a mini/classic version n... The C64 keyboard used 2 cursor keys to implement the functionality of 4 (using shift). Programming with that was a PITA (at least for me).

krzyk on Oct 13, 2020 [–]

Ah, right, it was strange when I think of it now, but it didn't bother me then.

My programming was mostly rewriting code from magazines and I didn't have any IDE so arrows were out of the question either way (AFAIR).

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