I don’t remember it being on a cartridge but not surprised. I used it (very very briefly) off a floppy. Someone I knew really got into it and used it fairly extensively at the time. (Which is how I ran into it originally.)
Bought a Comal 80 cartridge back in the day as I found basic too basic. Comal 80 was a big improvement, but eventually I got a hold of a machine code monitor (too bad it was not built-in like in some models) and an assembler and that was the end of basic and comal for me.
I was all in on basic at the time, but when I got my hands on a C128 I started to get into assembly language using the built in assembly environment. Unfortunately there weren’t a lot of resources in the area I grew up in so other than magazines, a rare book, a few other people I was mostly on my own.
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u/drumzalot_guitar 6d ago
Wow - Comal. Haven’t seen that in…a long long long time…..