This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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I was talking raw on-disk executable size, not so much minimum memory requirements… either number is equally interesting, though.
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ARexx speed and SCAN?
Message #132863
Why fight to save bytes, when people write programs – and will continue to write programs – that spend 4-10K on custom file requester code, or have 4-16 K just for gadget imagery? Does 10-20K here or there make much difference in a two meg machine? If someone *isn't* running…
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Evil for Henry
Message #132862
So the Pope kneels down next to his bed, saying his prayers. Zap! Bolt of lightning, God sits down on the bed, says "Pope, you've been such a good Pope, I'm going to grant you two wishes, anything you want, I'll give it to you." Pope says, "You know, God,…
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Evil for Henry
Message #132861
I think what Henry wants is for us to treat him as his own unique shade of grey, and because we're all our own shades of grey, we can't judge him or stop him if he's violating us in any way… War Is Peace! Two legs good, four legs bad!
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#A.X.News Magazine
Message #132454
Henry, Jay Gross has a fully functional, built-in BS detector, and the batteries are fresh.
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#A.X.News Magazine
Message #132454
Henry, Jay Gross has a fully functional, built-in BS detector, and the batteries are fresh.
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Stack size calc
Message #132030
The inconsistency lies in the difference between the comma operator's (guaranteed) order of evaluation, versus the (compiler-specific) order of evaluation for function parameters. They are two different beasts. It's just that these two things look almost the same. Quiet down, Larry might hear us. 🙂
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Amnews
Message #132029
Yup, AMNews and Topdown Development have bit the dust. Unfortunately, they stung a few people on the way down, including myself, in the way of buying articles and now not paying for them. Most hurt was Peggy Herrington, who recently became editor for AMnews, after leaving a contributing editor position…
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#What's c++
Message #131224
Coming from more strongly typed languages, C's strings and pointers are a bit different. Not wrong or bad, just different. 🙂 If you say "char foo;", you get a character. If you say "char *foo;", you have something that can point to chars. If you have an "APTR foo;", if…
#131109-
#What's c++
Message #131224
Coming from more strongly typed languages, C's strings and pointers are a bit different. Not wrong or bad, just different. 🙂 If you say "char foo;", you get a character. If you say "char *foo;", you have something that can point to chars. If you have an "APTR foo;", if…
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#Execute()
Message #131219
Lattice object files look remarkably like AmigaDOS executable files. Does this affect the magic cookie theory to any great extent?
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#Execute()
Message #131219
Lattice object files look remarkably like AmigaDOS executable files. Does this affect the magic cookie theory to any great extent?
I'm not associated with Amazing Computing to any extent any longer, so this isn't straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak. As far as I know, it's OK for you to type in this program, or easier still, wait for it to come out on an Amazing Computing disk.…
I'm not associated with Amazing Computing to any extent any longer, so this isn't straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak. As far as I know, it's OK for you to type in this program, or easier still, wait for it to come out on an Amazing Computing disk.…
Good question! What's the answer? Part of it would be determining the maximum level of function calling within the program, if each function declares a certain amount of stack space for local variables, then the stack can grow as the program executes. This is at least part of the problem,…
Good question! What's the answer? Part of it would be determining the maximum level of function calling within the program, if each function declares a certain amount of stack space for local variables, then the stack can grow as the program executes. This is at least part of the problem,…
OK, so not all files need to be visible. But we need smarter systems for linking icons and data, the Mac has this down already, so let's go copy them, seeing that they'll never sue CBM. 🙂 Why do so many programs have invisible (icon-less) config files and data files,…
OK, so not all files need to be visible. But we need smarter systems for linking icons and data, the Mac has this down already, so let's go copy them, seeing that they'll never sue CBM. 🙂 Why do so many programs have invisible (icon-less) config files and data files,…
What's wrong with a separate notion of "current directory, sorta" for each drive? 🙂 At least we don't have to intercept DOS calls to avoid "Abort, retry, ignore…"
What's wrong with a separate notion of "current directory, sorta" for each drive? 🙂 At least we don't have to intercept DOS calls to avoid "Abort, retry, ignore…"
My 1.3 ROMs are masked ROMs, you can call them what you want. 🙂 CBM part number 315093-02, other marks "8811ED" and "297" and "Japan" and "ChickenHead". I knew people who had CMI make them 1.3 ROMs even before the ones appeared at the DevCon.
My 1.3 ROMs are masked ROMs, you can call them what you want. 🙂 CBM part number 315093-02, other marks "8811ED" and "297" and "Japan" and "ChickenHead". I knew people who had CMI make them 1.3 ROMs even before the ones appeared at the DevCon.
Yes, Guy can be a lot of fun. Too bad he hasn't figured out what a "baud" is, tho, and why he needs one. 🙂
Yes, Guy can be a lot of fun. Too bad he hasn't figured out what a "baud" is, tho, and why he needs one. 🙂
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Individual FF Disks
Message #130725
So, Vic, I think you should send me the source code to Metascope. I'd like to look at it and learn something. After all, I'm a member of "mankind", right, and it would be to "mankind's advantage" if it were released? And what does this have to do with Ten…
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Individual FF Disks
Message #130725
So, Vic, I think you should send me the source code to Metascope. I'd like to look at it and learn something. After all, I'm a member of "mankind", right, and it would be to "mankind's advantage" if it were released? And what does this have to do with Ten…
Oh, I was going to hold up Eddie as an example of just how blind buyers could be. Eddie is still mad because I didn't make InterChange into a program that exchanged spreadsheet files. When I first told him about InterChange, that's what he wanted it to be, and swear…
Oh, I was going to hold up Eddie as an example of just how blind buyers could be. Eddie is still mad because I didn't make InterChange into a program that exchanged spreadsheet files. When I first told him about InterChange, that's what he wanted it to be, and swear…
OK, I accept your surrender. A cone with a cylinder under it is not a tree, except to kindergarteners who also accept a tree as being a circle with a stick under it. My point was about organic versus inorganic objects. Duplicating and scaling and stretching an object is easy…
OK, I accept your surrender. A cone with a cylinder under it is not a tree, except to kindergarteners who also accept a tree as being a circle with a stick under it. My point was about organic versus inorganic objects. Duplicating and scaling and stretching an object is easy…
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Blitz Disk – Where?
Message #130570
Oh, distributors always say things like that. I'm convinced they're just selling soap, and don't have a grasp on the technical value / price ratio. All they see is "How many of these can I sell, and if the price was a little higher, I could make more money!" I…
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Blitz Disk – Where?
Message #130570
Oh, distributors always say things like that. I'm convinced they're just selling soap, and don't have a grasp on the technical value / price ratio. All they see is "How many of these can I sell, and if the price was a little higher, I could make more money!" I…
I don't think I said 'disk', I said program, and said "someone calling something PD, and then trying to enforce a copyright…" Are you reading and replying on the fly? 🙂
I don't think I said 'disk', I said program, and said "someone calling something PD, and then trying to enforce a copyright…" Are you reading and replying on the fly? 🙂
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Amiga's Pathetic!
Message #130360
Has anyone written a Commodore 64 font to Amiga font converter? Darn, I'm already using "InterFont" as a product name…
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Amiga's Pathetic!
Message #130360
Has anyone written a Commodore 64 font to Amiga font converter? Darn, I'm already using "InterFont" as a product name…
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ARP
Message #130359
What rumor? 🙂 Did I miss Andy's response? What did he say?
#130156-
ARP
Message #130359
What rumor? 🙂 Did I miss Andy's response? What did he say?
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AutoCAD DXF translator !
Message #130358
Well, maybe 3-Demon is a dog, then? OK, let's have a race. Let's make a tree. I use Sculpt, you use AutoCAD. I think my tree will look more natural than yours. Obviously, if we were racing to build a house with exact dimensions, AutoCAD's a better tool. Saying people…
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AutoCAD DXF translator !
Message #130358
Well, maybe 3-Demon is a dog, then? OK, let's have a race. Let's make a tree. I use Sculpt, you use AutoCAD. I think my tree will look more natural than yours. Obviously, if we were racing to build a house with exact dimensions, AutoCAD's a better tool. Saying people…
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Individual FF Disks
Message #130357
Uhm, were we arguing? I didn't see anything in your message that I was supposed to disagree with. I was refering to people who call something PD but then try to place arbitrary restrictions on distribution or use…
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Individual FF Disks
Message #130357
Uhm, were we arguing? I didn't see anything in your message that I was supposed to disagree with. I was refering to people who call something PD but then try to place arbitrary restrictions on distribution or use…
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Individual FF Disks
Message #130356
So who's the other famous personality who thinks this way? 🙂 I think I qualified my statement to some degree. I think it's wrong to encourage people to give up their work. Making software requires valuable skills. Yes, some people do it for the sheer joy of coding, but that's…
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Individual FF Disks
Message #130356
So who's the other famous personality who thinks this way? 🙂 I think I qualified my statement to some degree. I think it's wrong to encourage people to give up their work. Making software requires valuable skills. Yes, some people do it for the sheer joy of coding, but that's…
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Blitz Disk – Where?
Message #130146
I knew it. Charlie's working on a Planetary Disk Controller. 🙂
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#AutoCAD DXF translator !
Message #130145
Obviously, you assume AutoCAD is a more powerful object editor than Amiga programs for the kind of objects you claim people are building: obviously, if AutoCAD release 9 and 10 have all these 3DFACE and surface patch entities, then the Amiga object editors could have a clear advantage over AutoCAD.
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#Individual FF Disks
Message #130138
Morality? I sometimes think it's downright immoral for people to be handing out their work. I think it's quite immoral to encourage Amiga programmers to hand out the fruits of their labor for free. A lot of the supposed "hacker ethic" thinks that way, and I'm against it. Sure, people…
Hmm. So how do we explain all the other errors in Amazing? 🙂
Hmm. So how do we explain all the other errors in Amazing? 🙂
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#Individual FF Disks
Message #129836
Yes, you can make money from selling PD software. It is fairly labor and capital intensive. You can dupe the disks at order time, or have someone else dupe them, but it entails a fair amount of up-front investment what with disk prices at about a dollar each. Add handling…
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