Re: A83: CalcEm, Aurora, endless venting, etc.
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Re: A83: CalcEm, Aurora, endless venting, etc.
Would you rather see Super Mario 83?
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Bryan Rabeler <brabeler@ticalc.org>
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On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Duy C Nguyen wrote:
>
> Bill needs to update both A-Shell and Aurora, which are far outdated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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