Re: I just came up with a REALLY stupid idea...

[lyricalnanoha@dosius.ath.cx (Steve Nickolas)]

Bill Garber wrote:
> "Steve Nickolas" <lyricalnanoha@dosius.ath.cx> wrote
> in message lyricalnanoha-1266991727@macgui.com">news:lyricalnanoha-1266991727@macgui.com...
>> I'm saying it's not done.  I'm hoping to pull it off,
>> but I'm not all that great a coder.  If you look over
>> the code, and figure out what I've written myself, as
>> opposed to copying from fpbasic, copying from pdos-rdos,
>> copying from elsewhere in the program - it boils down to
>> most of the "prent" (Print Entry) function used by CAT.
>> (And you can see just how ugly it is.) Seriously...that's
>> about all the code I've written myself for ehbasic.
>>
>> I'm not a genius, certainly nowhere near the level of
>> most of you here - just a well-versed idiot with a large
>> arsenal at my disposal.  I think it's by sheer force of
>> will I get *anywhere* with the code I develop.
> 
> Please don't misunderstand, I'm no way a programmer at all,
> and I'm not being critical by any means. What I am doing
> is merely suggesting that if you stay with it, you may find
> that you will improve more than if you jump around. This
> much I know from my own experience of jumping from one thing
> to another, and never finishing anything.
> 
> I have so many started projects, I kind of wonder why I've
> even bothered to keep this stuff. Many is the time I have
> just wanted to give it all away and just watch TV.  ;-)
> 
> Bill
>

Perhaps true.  I've been known to jump from project to project (though the
ehbasic+ hack is less back-burner than other projects have become when I
haven't been actively working on them).

EHBASIC has the advantage that it can be reassembled for any system.  My
hacked EHBASIC narrows it down to Apple ][-like systems, but it can still be
pushed around and loaded into different memory locations or whatall as
needed.  (I have a disk image, for example, that loads a 48K version of
EHBASIC on a 48K ProDOS 1.0/1.0.1 system.)

-uso.