CompuServe Thread

My Kernal ROM book (1986: Commodore Electronics) says about the same thing, p47. NEVERTHELESS, if you use mode=0 in the way you described, the color spills past the border consistantly. Try it. I am writing a paint program as an exercise. I am creating nearly identical versions of the program for both the Amiga 1000 and the Apple IIGS, so that I may compare program development times on both machines. Ideally this would be done in C on both machines, but I don't yet have C for the Amiga, and my IIGS C is strange and buggy. The program I am creating is VERY similar to the "Micro Illustrator" program supplied with the KoalaPad for the CBM-64, Apple IIe, etc. Eventually I will place it in the museums computer lab. You may wonder why I don't simply use Deluxe Paint, etc. We have to create most of the software we use on the museum floor, rather than use off-the-shelf stuff. Though this is a "hands-on" museum, visitors are too overwhelmed by most of the "store-bought" software. We spend a lot of time creating less fully featured, "reverse-engineered" versions of other peoples software, especially with simpler and more "friendly" user-interfaces. Incidentally, even though AmigaBASIC has some annoying idiosyncracies, I am impressed by it. (It is BASIC, after all). It has a faintly "C-ish" or " "Pascal-ish" flavor to it. I like the STRUCTURE command, the way you can use sub-programs to add new commands to the language, the way the Kernal tools interface with the language through the LIBRARY and FUNCTION commands. Block IF…THEN…ELSE…ELSEIF is a dream. It occurs to me that these are the same kind of problems Apple should have faced in order to tap their IIGS "toolbox" from, say, 16-bit BASIC. Yet, though Commodore seems to have easily solved these problems, no such BASIC has appeared for the IIGS. Could there be truth to the rumors that Apple is deliberately retarding the IIGS so that it will not compete with the MacIntosh line? They've done stranger things.

My Kernal ROM book (1986: Commodore Electronics) says about the same thing, p47. NEVERTHELESS, if you use mode=0 in the way you described, the color spills past the border consistantly. Try it. I am writing a paint program as an exercise. I am creating nearly identical versions of the program for both the Amiga 1000 and the Apple IIGS, so that I may compare program development times on both machines. Ideally this would be done in C on both machines, but I don't yet have C for the Amiga, and my IIGS C is strange and buggy. The program I am creating is VERY similar to the "Micro Illustrator" program supplied with the KoalaPad for the CBM-64, Apple IIe, etc. Eventually I will place it in the museums computer lab. You may wonder why I don't simply use Deluxe Paint, etc. We have to create most of the software we use on the museum floor, rather than use off-the-shelf stuff. Though this is a "hands-on" museum, visitors are too overwhelmed by most of the "store-bought" software. We spend a lot of time creating less fully featured, "reverse-engineered" versions of other peoples software, especially with simpler and more "friendly" user-interfaces. Incidentally, even though AmigaBASIC has some annoying idiosyncracies, I am impressed by it. (It is BASIC, after all). It has a faintly "C-ish" or " "Pascal-ish" flavor to it. I like the STRUCTURE command, the way you can use sub-programs to add new commands to the language, the way the Kernal tools interface with the language through the LIBRARY and FUNCTION commands. Block IF…THEN…ELSE…ELSEIF is a dream. It occurs to me that these are the same kind of problems Apple should have faced in order to tap their IIGS "toolbox" from, say, 16-bit BASIC. Yet, though Commodore seems to have easily solved these problems, no such BASIC has appeared for the IIGS. Could there be truth to the rumors that Apple is deliberately retarding the IIGS so that it will not compete with the MacIntosh line? They've done stranger things.