Re: GS+ Magazine Ceases Publication!!!

[mahon@nsa.hp.com (Michael Mahon)]

Alberto Roffe (roffe@delphi.com) wrote:

: Softdisk (for the Apple IIe/IIc) is dead too. I announced it myself in here
: a few weeks ago and almost no one responded anything.
: I guess this just proves which Apple II do the majority of the netters use :/

Wow, I didn't know that the 8-bit Softdisk had folded...  They haven't
notified me (a long-time subscriber) yet.  :-7

I though I should at least raise the flag for 8-bit Apple II's, since
Alberto finds us conspicuously absent!

I love the II's, but have never been able to consider the GS as a "true"
extension to the II line.  I know it's fully compatible and all, but its
still too much like putting a Chevy engine into a Ford Model T.  The
6502 was a RISCy classic, while the 65816 seems to be a kludgy add-on.
And programming for a GS is *way* too much like programming for a Mac!
Don't get me wrong--I enjoy using modern computers with modern interfaces--
but I love programming classic computers with simple, elegant interface
*code*.  (The resulting interfaces may not be standard, but they have a
coherence all their own--like the virtual "cursor diamond" IJKM.)

Oh, well, I guess it's a matter of taste, and there's no sense disputing
that!  ;->

Cheers,

-michael