Re: Virtual GS

[Polymorph <polymorph69@hotmail.com>]

On Jan 7, 9:54 pm, limtc <thyech...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just to share my joy when I saw Steve Wozniak comment on the site
> Virtual GS (http://virtualgs.larwe.com/):
>
> --
> From: Steve Wozniak
> Subject: Re: virtual Apple II GS from Singapore
>
> wow, what a site!
> --
>
> This is the best compliment I ever had in my life. :) Note that I got
> this comment indirectly from Steve friend (who is my friend).
>
> Anyway, Ding Wen is now doing his latest game for Apple IIGS, which
> will probably see the light of the day in coming weeks. After this is
> done, I am going to start teaching him ActionScript 3 programming, so
> he might not be programming on the Apple IIGS any more. It is hard to
> hold his interest for long without a real Apple IIGS computer, so this
> is a natural development as he already has a Mac Mini and ActionScript
> 3 is an excellent follow up language for Pascal. I am thinking of
> enhancing the Virtual GS site further with comparison between retro
> and current programming including ActionScript, any feedback is
> welcome!

Thats awesome to get a compliment from the man himself. Well done
indeed! :-)

Its a shame your son is moving away from the IIgs so soon though. I
was hoping to see more from him on this platform.  :-(   But I
understand the reasoning behind what you are doing - its probably
slightly better to have ActionScript on your resume than Complete
Pascal.  :-)

The reason I want to program on the IIgs is that I program on modern
day PC's for a living, and I have to say that it all becomes a bit too
similar with most of the languages these days adopting a C style
syntax and have IDE's that are almost identical.

I much prefer to try and push the old IIgs hardware to do *new* things
- it is much more gratifying. It is even more gratifying when having
to use a programming language that you haven't used for a *long* time
(at least 15 years) using an IDE that is very different and quite
limited in its abilities (some would call me masochistic). Besides,
trying to find something *new* on modern day hardware that hasn't
already been done by someone else is quite difficult.

But there is a difference between me and your son - I already know how
to code on modern day machines and have gone retro. He is still in the
learning phase, and I think that you are probably doing the correct
thing by developing his interests in more than one language and using
modern day hardware. Just make sure he writes the occasional program
for the IIgs as well.  :-P

Cheers,
Mike