Re: A83: CalcEm, Aurora, endless venting, etc.
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Re: A83: CalcEm, Aurora, endless venting, etc.
Bill needs to update both A-Shell and Aurora, which are far outdated
compared to today's shells.
On Sat, 22 Aug 1998 12:13:09 EDT SethirothL@aol.com writes:
>
>Well, James, I took your advice, and got CalcEm, dumped my Rom, and
>starting
>working. It runs so very fast on my 486 66mHz, of course, that IS
>sarcasm.
>So I thought I'd just go back do using my graphlink to send files to
>my good
>old 83. And even though every other time I run my programs, they
>crash, and I
>must yank out all the batteries and press "ON" great numbers of times,
>then re
>insert the batteries, open ultra edit, try to debug my program,
>compile my
>program, send my program, then squish my program, then run my program,
>and it
>crashes, and I have to do all of the above again, etc, yada yada
>yada.. ......
>I love assembly!
>
>Well, I would use Devpac83 if I wasn't so stupid.. it seems not to
>like me,
>oh well.
>Thank you, all, for listening for my endless rambling venting, as it
>has not
>been a good day for me. Now the real question: "What the hell is
>Aurora?" I
>think I've kept my head in a ditch entirely too long.. It showed up at
>my
>school. One of my friends in math showed it to me.
> "Look, Seth, it has ICONS! It's soo much better than that
>crap you use, SOS
>or whatever."
> I rolled my eyes, "...so, does Aurora support libraries?"
> "Um.. what's that?"
> I sighed. "Does Aurora run Squished programs?"
> "What the hell is a Squished program? Who needs those when
>you have
> ICONS?!"
> "How much memory does this Win95 wannabe gui/shell thingy take
>up?"
> "It doesn't matter. It has ICONS! And a mouse! And a
>password protection
> thing! It's soo much better than the shell you use."
> "Have you noticed none of your basic programs appear on the
>"desktop" and
> have beautiful glimmering icons?"
> "Basic is dumb anyways."
>
>This little excerpt was not an attack on Aurora, in fact, it will be
>Christmas
>in hell before I can program something that useful, I'm just saying to
>all the
>people out there, if you're not using SOS, you should. While my level
>of
>assembly still lies at tic tac toe programs, factoring programs, and
>an
>assembly version of the periodic table that I made myself and I use to
>cheat
>on tests in chemistry, I DO have good tastes. Long live SOS!
>
>Seth
>
>(P.S. Don't make any replies to this letter concerning devpac83 in
>the form
>of, did you insert this in your ASM.bat file, then list the bit of
>commands
>I'm supposed to insert. C'mon folks, perhaps it's not obvious, but
>I'm not
>THAT stupid. Have a good day!)
>
>
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