Re: A83: CalcEm, Aurora, endless venting, etc.


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Re: A83: CalcEm, Aurora, endless venting, etc.




I locked him in a closet and I don't let him eat unless he writes code for
me! hehe
Actually I have no idea where he is...... (I'm serious!)

geez.. all this flattery almost makes me feel embarrased! hehe

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan C Johnson <benjamin99@juno.com>
To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Saturday, August 22, 1998 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: A83: CalcEm, Aurora, endless venting, etc.


>
>Speaking of Bill, WTF has he been?  How old is he anyway?  I could
>understand his ditching the 83 if I knew he was graduated from school and
>has a full time high paying job.  He hasn't released any 83 progs since
>January.  He could give us all a great deal of ASM help.  You  didn't
>lock him away somewhere did you, Joe ? :  )  Just kidding.  Your a lot
>more of a help than he is anyway and you have a cooler webpage!  Hail
>SOS!  Long live Joe!
>
>
>> Bill needs to update both A-Shell and Aurora, which are far outdated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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