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


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




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On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Alan C Johnson wrote:

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 Bill needs to update both A-Shell and Aurora, which are far outdated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