Re: Battle of the Nostalgics

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sentex.net>]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:58:46 -0500, Yves McDonald
<""yves.mcdonald\"@NO SPAM sympatico.ca> wrote:

>You could have hacked the 2GS if you had deep pockets (lots of $$$): 
>after all, it has the same expansion bus as the ][+ but only Applesoft 
>interpreter.  To get most of the Toolbox ROM and GS 16-bit features, you 
>need:
>- Apple/Addison-Wesley programming and reference books,
>- hard disk (highly recommended)
>- a compiler (usually Pascal or C)
>- an assembler for those time-critical routines
>- more books on your favorite subject: ProDos file system, GS hardware, etc.
>Back in the '80s, GUI programming concepts were new to a lot of hackers. 
>  It was a steep learning curve.  Today, after fighting a lot with 
>Windoze API or MFC, GS' GUI programming seems easier and more elegant.

You can hack around with a IIgs just as easily as you can with the
earlier Apple IIs, you just had more stuff to hack around with.  If it
were significantly more difficult, Nibble would have had a hard time
coming up with neat little routines and tricks and tips to publish in
the magazine.  :-)

However, to take full advantage of the machine and to make doing that
easier on you, it is a good idea to get the right tools such as the
toolbox references, at least one good programming language, et al.

-- 
 Jeff Blakeney - Dean of the Apple II University in the
                 Apple II Community on Syndicomm.com
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