From: "ict@ccess" Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.programmer Subject: Re: UNIX Command line programming Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:43:55 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4cb4e107-c609-41a1-b66c-e2ddcf60e6ff@v6g2000pba.googlegroups.com> References: <640974f9-194f-4fbf-9ca6-334f17cc27f0@ow3g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> <1610626388351470426.385691mjmahon-aol.com@news.giganews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.165.85.96 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1329795835 7401 127.0.0.1 (21 Feb 2012 03:43:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:43:55 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v6g2000pba.googlegroups.com; posting-host=142.165.85.96; posting-account=U4TNXwoAAABP4nIJHynAJZ69O_f3LY2g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUALESNKRC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1,gzip(gfe) Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.franciliens.net!feed.ac-versailles.fr!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!74.125.46.80.MISMATCH!postnews.google.com!v6g2000pba.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.apple2.programmer:186 > Wow--you've been busy! So far, it has been about a 3 winter project. I do very little programming when spring comes until late fall. My goal is to see how much an 8 bit/64 kb/1 Mhz/32 Mb computer can do. I only use the 80 column card, but I have not programmed AUX memory yet, so I do not count it as being a 128 kb computer. At the same time, I am wishing someone would build me a Carte Blanche card that would do 640x400x256 colors, so I can have 48 lines of text and 160 columns and more life-like graphics. This is still very usable with an 8 bit machine. By increasing the power of applesoft with enhanced routines has saved a lot of memory and made programming much easier, and more can be done with less code. There always was and has been too much duplication with applesoft programs. Every program needed its own input routines, and its own print-to-screen routines. I must say, programming in hexadecimal, sure has changed the way I look at things. I rarely programmed using an assembler, until lately when some of the programs starting getting too large. But now that I understand how to program, I am 20 years too late for it to be any good. Now it's just a hobby. Rob Allowing Applesoft to play with the big boys