Re: Problems in "Modernizing" a //gs

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 4 Nov 1997 02:45:57 GMT, kcr103@psu.edu wrote:

>On another note, I wish that I could continue writing software for the
>Apple ][gs, but my last program, the QuickFix Math Library, was almost
>completely ignored by the Apple ][ community.  Only one person
>expressed interest in the software, and the person bought the software
>and was ecstatic about it.  My motivation was pretty much eliminated
>since releasing this program.  Thus, the QuickFix library will probably
>be my last Apple ][ program.

I saw it but it held little interest for me.  I don't completely
remember what it did now but I know that any math operation that I
program the IIgs to do (and the 8 bits as well if and when I can) will
use SANE and the Integer Math toolsets.  This way, if or when
improvements are made to them, then my programs will automatically run
faster because of the improvement without me having to recompile.

An example of this is math coprocessor cards.  There are a few out
there that patch themselves into the math tools and will accelerate
any math operations that use those tools.  Any program I write that
uses the math tools will work fine on machines without a coprocessor
but will run much faster in a machine with the coprocessor.

Now, if your QuickFix Math is an improved version of the Integer Math
toolset or something similar that any user can install in their system
and get improved performance, then I think more people should pick it
up.  But if it is, as I suspect, a library that programmers include in
their programs for faster math routines, then it has a limited market.

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