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Bill needs to update both A-Shell and Aurora, which are far outdated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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