"Here's an example code for Commodore 64. It should work on your Commodore 16 if you just leave out the POKEs and PEEKs."

Said by my sister somewhere in the mid 80s. This particular advice was silly, but I owe her for my interest in coding. It was actually her who begged our parents to get us a home computer, and took programming courses. She got bored with it though, and I got hooked up for life. Thanks sis!

It didn't have poke? How did you change data?

@SpencerBeige It did, but of course the registers differed from C64 so any addresses from that example would not have made any sense. C16 actually had a richer set of Basic commans, so much of what needed be done with pokes ona C64 would actually have been achieved through Basic commands, especially when it came to graphics. C16 also boasted many more colours than a C64. But if you wanted to create reasonably fast games with sprites, scrolling etc. you would have needed machine code anyway.

A rant by the cast of Halt and Catch Fire?

@kabhishek Sorry, I don't understand your comment. Binged "cast of Halt and Catch Fire". It's a movie?

@TerriToniAX Halt and Catch fire is a TV series focused in the technologies (making of OS, 8bit games, networking modem etc, and latest series which is thirst focuses on the boom and start of WWW and HTML). I never got to use a commodore it was a thing before I was born. The drama focuses on people how they innovated laptop, modem, web browser monopoly, ISP, anti-virus, etc...
I like the show and it was great to read a commodore tagged rant.

@kabhishek Aha, now your comment makes perfect sense :D Yeah, those were the bad ol' times :) Thanks for the tip, sounds like an interesting TV series. Haven't seen it, will have to try and find it somewhere.