COMMODORE 77
Q-BASIC 2077 · SERPENT.SYS · USER MANUAL
Recovered from a Watson dumpster, fifty years before Night City learned to sell a soul on a chip. The safest tech is the oldest: 64 kilobytes and a dream.
BOOT
Press any key to power on. After two seconds, SPACE skips the BIOS crawl. Audio unlocks on that first tap — browsers are more paranoid than NetWatch.
CORE BASIC
| PRINT / ? | Write to the CRT. TAB(n), semicolon, comma. |
|---|---|
| LET / A=1 | Assignment. Strings end in $. |
| INPUT | Prompt and read a line. |
| IF THEN ELSE | Conditionals. THEN 100 is a GOTO. |
| FOR / NEXT | Loops with optional STEP. |
| GOTO / GOSUB / RETURN | Flow. BREAK with ESC or X9. |
| PEEK / POKE | 64K map. 53280 border, 53281 background, 54272 SID. |
| SYS | 64738 warm reset. 2077 relic handshake. |
| LIST RUN NEW LOAD SAVE DIR | Program control. LOAD "$" for catalog. |
| RND INT ABS LEN LEFT$ CHR$ ASC | Functions. CHR$(147) clears. |
NIGHT CITY EXTENSIONS
| JACK "NET" | Read-only district map. |
|---|---|
| LOAD "ROACH" | Roach Race. Jump, double-jump, glitch. |
| LOAD "TRAUMA" | Trauma Drama. Extract civilians, shoot hostiles. |
| LOAD "RELIC" | Before the Relic demo. |
| RADIO ON / F8 | KOSMOS 77 / SHAMAN FM SID bus. |
| TRACE ON | Netrunner overlay. |
| RIPPER / EDDIES | Chrome status / wallet. |
| BLACKWALL | Do not. NetWatch will log you. |
| PLAY "CDEC" | Tiny SID riff. |
KEYS
F1 HELP · F5 RUN · F7 DIR · F8 RADIO · ESC BREAK. On a phone, use the on-screen keyboard. High scores and typed programs stay in local storage on this machine.
TYPE-IN SHARDS
LOAD "WAKE" · LOAD "TTICKER" · LOAD "ODDS" · LOAD "LIFT" · LOAD "TAB" · LOAD "SIDPLAY" · LOAD "CRAWL" · LOAD "BOX" then LIST and RUN.