Would it be worth having a "Retro Device" programming category?

[CharlieJV]

Not the kind of category I could contribute to, but it could be interesting.  For all kinds of devices.

Maybe one catch-all forum for any kind of device, then maybe a forum-per-device when discussion for specific device achieves some threshold of activity.

I'm thinking, for example, retro-programming on the C64.  There's a lot of device-specific peek and poke stuff related to that.

Same thing for, say, the PDP-11.

Going back to the C64, a catch all category like "C64 programming (BASIC and others)".  With that device-specific category and all types of programming languages in that one bucket, there would not need to be a "C64 BASIC" category.

Kind of muddled thoughts there.

All of course focused on programming and programs.  Retro-computing on the C64, that (in my mind) is way bigger and beyond the scope of this forum.

Anyway, just one "Retro-Device Programming" category as a catch all and way to measure interest.

[Lucidapogee]

Sure, why not?

Some examples may include Gameboy Basic (the interpreter), GBDK (C compiler for gameboy), BasiEgaXorz Sega Genesis BASIC compiler, batari Basic Atari VCS BASIC compiler, PS2 Yabasic Demo Disk, G-Basic and F-Basic on keyboard Famiclones... just off the top of my head.

There should be a place to talk about G-Basic and F-Basic. All of the challenges of trying to peek and poke parallel ports from a NOAC with a keyboard.