orion: the middle columns are hexadecimal view of the machine code. the right hand column is ascii view of machine code, which is usually garbage unless you are looking at the textual section of a program.
to see similar, type hexdump -C /bin/ls in a linux terminal, or google image search for 'hex editor'.
Yeah I think it was an Imsai 8080. Mega processing power! It's great you've put Whizkids on YouTube, I remember it from when I was a kid but didn't think I'd see it again - thanks!
So let me get it straight, was it assembly mnemonics like JMP R0 or was it binary machine code like 1010 0001. I think opcodes are in both machine language and assembler since assembler is just an easier to read form of the machine code.
It was 8-bit machine code in hex, which consists of the opcode first and then the operand, or data, second (e.g. in 6502 machine code, C9 44 would be Compare Accumulator with hex 44). What they showed on the screen was a hex memory dump, 64 bits wide, with the address at the left, the hex dump in the middle and the ASCII on the right. Still, you'd have to be an uber-nerd to code directly in hex. Even in 1983!
Oh, I get it. Thanks for letting us know. If you have any other technical comments on other episodes, feel free. For example, was that probably an IMSAI or ALTAIR in the opening sequence?
heheh anyone else remember 6502 assembly language...we are the elite.....dam kids have no idea what a real programmer can do...........
zoidburg111 1 year ago
@zoidburg111 wait...or zilog z-80 assembly.......they are elite too....
zoidburg111 1 year ago
how on earth did you get all these.....i thought i was the only person alive that remembered this show....................
zoidburg111 1 year ago
i remember this
but not like this
TEMPmichaelhansen 1 year ago
orion: the middle columns are hexadecimal view of the machine code. the right hand column is ascii view of machine code, which is usually garbage unless you are looking at the textual section of a program.
to see similar, type hexdump -C /bin/ls in a linux terminal, or google image search for 'hex editor'.
phdecora 2 years ago
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phdecora 2 years ago
Here in Chile this serie was called "La pandilla computarizada" (in spanish something like "the whiz gang")
Thank you for the memories
elhn 2 years ago
Yeah I think it was an Imsai 8080. Mega processing power! It's great you've put Whizkids on YouTube, I remember it from when I was a kid but didn't think I'd see it again - thanks!
Fidelio76 3 years ago
So let me get it straight, was it assembly mnemonics like JMP R0 or was it binary machine code like 1010 0001. I think opcodes are in both machine language and assembler since assembler is just an easier to read form of the machine code.
the text on screen is pretty small and fuzzy.
orion1052003 4 years ago
It was 8-bit machine code in hex, which consists of the opcode first and then the operand, or data, second (e.g. in 6502 machine code, C9 44 would be Compare Accumulator with hex 44). What they showed on the screen was a hex memory dump, 64 bits wide, with the address at the left, the hex dump in the middle and the ASCII on the right. Still, you'd have to be an uber-nerd to code directly in hex. Even in 1983!
Fidelio76 3 years ago
Oh, I get it. Thanks for letting us know. If you have any other technical comments on other episodes, feel free. For example, was that probably an IMSAI or ALTAIR in the opening sequence?
orion1052003 3 years ago
Oh, you mean around 5:06, where there is some memory locations on the left, opcodes and operands in the middle, and a comment field on the right?
orion1052003 4 years ago
The kid typed the program in with opcodes. Gotta love the 80's. The music from Probe sounded all most the same.
empedocles76 4 years ago
You mean he used assembly language? Is probe a band?
orion1052003 4 years ago
Probe is a tv show that got cancelled due to the last writer's strike. You might be able to find a few episodes on here.
I mean, he wrote machine code -- opcodes.
empedocles76 4 years ago
"PROBE" with parker stevens
i saw it on here
TEMPmichaelhansen 1 year ago
heh this show should have been called "whiz KID" cuz the only kid who's smart as hell is Richie
atomicbunnygirl 4 years ago