But you only had 22 columns to play with :(

Post #35,062 by Meerkat 4/10/02 10:57:53 PM Reply	But you only had 22 columns to play with :( The TI had a whole throbbing 28, normally. But yeah, when I upgraded to a C128, full-screen editing was my friend (and Basic 7.0 rocked, too...) Snippet of IT conversation I just overhead "They employed me right away coz I had a lot of Wang..."
Post #35,097 by SpiceWare 4/11/02 9:38:35 AM Reply	Not many options at that time I was originally going to get the TRS-80 Color Computer(32 columns, all caps). I spent the summer of 81 working at grandma's to save up money for the computer. My parents were going to pay for the other half and I'd get it for Christmas. One day grandma wanted to see this "new fangled thing" that I wanted, so we went to a Radio Shack. The CoCo display was turned off so I asked the guy working there if he would turn it on - his response "I can't, there's a password for it and I don't know it. If it's not typed in correctly it will ruin* the computer".* Needless to say, the bold faced lie really ticked me off, and to this date I purchase a lot fewer things from Rat Shack than I would have. I then found out about the newly released Vic 20 and decided to get that instead. Turned out to be a much better system for me as I'd taught myself programming on a Commodore PET my freshman year in highschool(80-81). I think the funky editing on the CoCo would have annoyed me to no end. I got my first modem around the time I started to learn machine language. I didn't even have an assembler, I used a short BASIC program with data statements and a READ/POKE loop(took me a bit to figure out backward branching). One of my early ML programs was a 40 column terminal, using 4 pixel wide characters(each character was 3 pixels wide with 1 pixel for spacing between letters). It worked surprisingly well(probably because the pixels were so large, somebody did something similiar for the C=64 later but it didn't work quite as well). The only annoying thing was my screen scrolling routine - it went by column(left to right) and made the display look like it was doing the hula while it scrolled :-) Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://home.houston.rr.com/spiceware/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #35,100 by broomberg 4/11/02 10:59:23 AM Reply	May not have been a lie I had a friend who was a C64 guru. He knew the exact sequence of peeks and pokes that could cause damage to the peripherals, and when a store pissed him off, he'd code it on their demo boxes. They triggered a sequence once, after it flashed a warning on touch. Since they were too stupid to realize turning it off would wipe it clean, they had several boxes on for a huge amount of time, yet were scared to touch them.
Post #35,112 by SpiceWare 4/11/02 11:55:27 AM Reply	while it's possible to harm hardware with software turning on CoCo does not involve a password. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://home.houston.rr.com/spiceware/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #35,098 by SpiceWare 4/11/02 9:47:43 AM Reply	Ah, BASIC 7.0 yeah, that was cool. I recoded the 128's PLAY routine for my BBS/Term programs on the C64, had it set up to send music in real time at 300 baud. I sold a quite a few copies of my BBS program - paid for my books a few semesters. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://home.houston.rr.com/spiceware/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #35,130 by orion 4/11/02 1:20:51 PM Reply	You'd love MESS [link\|http://www.mess.org\|[link\|http://www.mess.org\|http://www.mess.org]] it does TI/994A, C-VIC-20, C64, C128 and other emulation. I think they just came out with an update? *I am free now, to choose my own destiny.*

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