Re: Apple advertisement

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <5ev144$25t@login.freenet.columbus.oh.us>,
Dave Althoff <dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us> wrote:

[snip]

>: Sounds kinda like me, I started out on a ][ plus in school, when they were
>: top of the line. Learned BASIC and assembly, without an assembler even.
>
>Hmmm...Didja have 64k?
>]INT
>>CALL -151
>*F666G

Nope, it was a 48K box so no mini-assembler. So it was a write the assembly on
paper, convert to machine code, and type in the hex kinda thing. The most
complicated thing I wrote like that was a hires character generator which
used the Applesoft shape table routines to draw letters on the screen, with
code borrowed from a Softalk article to scroll the screen. It was kinda cool
but looks fairly crappy on a color monitor. On a monitor III, can't tell it
from the 40 col text screen.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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