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Re: Announcing BIN2RAG for ProDOS 8 with hgrServer for Windows - First Release

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"Antoine Vignau" <antoine.vignau@laposte.net> wrote:

>Very interesting, thanks Bill

Thanks for taking a look Antoine. That means a lot to me.

It can be interesting if viewed from certain historical perspectives...

It's been quite awhile since I wrote a Windows program in C but the 
incredible amount of work that has gone into AppleWin since I last took a 
look 4 or 5 years back inspired me. It was great fun.

As far as the Aztec C65 stuff goes, I realize of course that it will 
probably go nowhere.

But both Windows C and Aztec C are like latin and the memories of old 
programmers, and they don't change, and vanish unless they are actively 
used. So for the sake of history and retro-computing, I wanted to move this 
forward and have some fun with it so those memories of mine don't vanish and 
remain an active part of the Apple II community's identity FWIW.

Besides that, I wanted to write some of this down FWIW. I am fully aware 
that the old csa2 crew that was into Aztec C is no longer around. For this 
reason alone I am motivated to see that this stuff remains on record, and 
their work as well:

Phade, Phoenyx, RubyWand, PaulRSM and others...

Now back to "work"... I mean "play" of course.

At a certain future point I will probably be inspired to pull-out my GS and 
my ORCA C and at that point I will pay some more attention to what you are 
doing but for now I am going with this "update" for Aztec C65 as my personal 
theme for Spring 2013.

I would like to get a short list of popular graphics formats for the GS from 
the early days at some point, and their specifications, but that can of 
course wait since I am planing to live another 30 years so I still have some 
time to play as long as my eyes hold-out.

Regards,

Bill





 

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Announcing BIN2RAG for ProDOS 8 with hgrServer for Windows - First Release "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2013-03-15 20:13 -0500
  Re: Announcing BIN2RAG for ProDOS 8 with hgrServer for Windows - First Release Antoine Vignau <antoine.vignau@laposte.net> - 2013-03-16 01:37 -0700
    Re: Announcing BIN2RAG for ProDOS 8 with hgrServer for Windows - First Release "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2013-03-16 12:16 -0500
  Re: Announcing BIN2RAG for ProDOS 8 with hgrServer for Windows - First Release Antoine Vignau <antoine.vignau@laposte.net> - 2013-03-17 03:27 -0700
    Re: Announcing BIN2RAG for ProDOS 8 with hgrServer for Windows - First Release "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2013-03-17 12:38 -0500

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