This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Certainly so — but if you had a forum of shareware authors withOUT an attendant user base, then what would, say, an Amiga author talk about to a C64 or Atari author? Only the vaguest of stuff, I think. In the meantime, machine-specific forums l;ike this one are probably more…
Is UEdit dying???
Message #74295
Well this issue certainly seems to have touched a raw nerve, judging by the number and defensive tone of the responses. I wonder just how many of the people who've jumped into this fray have actually walked the shareware route? More than a few, I think. My experience has always…
Is UEdit dying???
Message #74295
Well this issue certainly seems to have touched a raw nerve, judging by the number and defensive tone of the responses. I wonder just how many of the people who've jumped into this fray have actually walked the shareware route? More than a few, I think. My experience has always…
Shareware Help
Message #74294
They may seem obvious, but these would be my initial suggestions for all shareware authors. Some of them are just plain business sense. 1> Put your name and address VISIBLY in the executable. More than once, even — in NGI the address is on the startup page and also present…
Shareware Help
Message #74294
They may seem obvious, but these would be my initial suggestions for all shareware authors. Some of them are just plain business sense. 1> Put your name and address VISIBLY in the executable. More than once, even — in NGI the address is on the startup page and also present…
Mandel.c
Message #42761
Thanks in return for sending up FSCAPE — I'd not seen a "normal" Carpenter implementation in BASIC before. To complement it, I've sent up a prog called Xenos.Bas — similar, but using a "quad" algorithm and variable resolution… I'll keep an eye open for that FFP doc… ^Kx
Mandel.c
Message #42761
Thanks in return for sending up FSCAPE — I'd not seen a "normal" Carpenter implementation in BASIC before. To complement it, I've sent up a prog called Xenos.Bas — similar, but using a "quad" algorithm and variable resolution… I'll keep an eye open for that FFP doc… ^Kx
HalfBr?
Message #42538
Well it compiled and ran, but…. I can't really say if the colors on top or bottom were brighter. True, at the moment this Amiga is cabled into an old green-screen Apple Monitor III rather than a nice color setup, but brightness SHOULD be brightness… my box ser#1117609.
Kim: No apology nessesary — CIS does that to everyone. ^Kx
Dick: I agree, and wasn't trying to defend MetaComCo, just try to figure out what the heck is going on inside this box. I work at a company where we have a very large computing facility dedicated to just a small number of people, and we often tend to do…
Gary: Yes, MS tokenizes — Microsoft wrote the BASICs in most every micro around (Apple, IBM, C-64, TI…) and they all tokenize (which is why, say, MS-BASIC files have to be explicitly saved with an ASCII option to be edited externally from BASIC). I still think that ABasiC tokenizes, it…
Just to butt in — yes, both. Dig the ED commands "BS" "BE" "DB" "IB" and (related) "IF"…. (And see EDCMDS.TXT in DL7) ^Kx
EDIT & ED & relatives
Message #42484
EDIT may look like a throwback, but then I doubt that they wanted to make it be Wordstar 2000 — line-oriented editors like Unix ED or VMS EDT or the ED & SED spinoffs under CPM & MSDOS are all powerful programming tools that I wouldn't want to be without…
The answer is…. vectorize? After all, the Amiga uses lists as a library primitive — maybe the makers of ABasiC just assumed that everyone would program in that sort of style.
ABasiC program size
Message #42465
Hmm. My guess (as a long-time interpretter/compiler fiddler) would be that since it's named ABasiC, the language ia written in C, and thus part of the overhead comes from that — a compiled interpretter, rather than an assembled one. The figures I've seen indicate that ABasiC (which as we all…