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Post by pinacolada on Jun 27, 2023 3:52:19 GMT
It was a very nice, very busy show indeed. Thanks for organizing it, Robert
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Post by pinacolada on Jun 27, 2023 3:38:01 GMT
(Ryan here) Very nice work on the OS, Triangular. I loaded it on my 1541 Ultimate at the expo, did play around with Sim City for a bit. I'll have to play a lot more. I did let it run during a presentation and just like in other versions, your funds increase, and I saw people moving into the residential area. Is there a save/load option by chance? Robert, SimCity is a city simulator. You want people to move to your city, and you build residential, commercial or industrial areas to let them do that. Eventually they start paying taxes, so your city government gets more money to do bigger and better stuff. Not sure how much of that is implemented, but the fact that this runs at all is pretty awesome! Great job, everyone.
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Post by pinacolada on Sept 14, 2017 0:18:27 GMT
When I wrote that the # syntax wasn’t included in the BASIC reference, I hadn’t actually checked the MOVSPR entry, because I was operating under the mistaken assumption that the hash mark was acting as a BASIC operator or something of that sort. I had never seen a hash mark used in Commodore BASIC at all, anywhere, and had no idea how to pick apart the syntax of the original expression. EDIT: With the obvious exceptions of GET#, INPUT#, PRINT#, and RECORD#, of course, but it’s part of the keyword with those. Not the same thing at all. I realize this isn't what you mean about # used as a BASIC operator, but the only other place I've seen the # symbol is in PRINT USING statement for numeric placeholders. See sites.google.com/site/h2obsession/CBM/basic/keywords/pudef Just thought I'd pop in and resurrect an old thread.
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Post by pinacolada on Feb 14, 2016 3:15:28 GMT
Are the files in a disk image or separate .seq files (as extracted from a disk image, perhaps?)
Pete Schepers' excellent 64COPY utility <http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~schepers/personal.html> can do what you want, regardless of the answer. It's a pure DOS program. Once you start it with 64COPY.EXE, you'll see a two-pane file manager (like Norton Commander, et al) and you can dive into a disk image or select a PETSCII file with Shift-F9. It will then ask you what the source of the original file is, and what you'd like to convert the output into, and where.
Barring that, NovaTerm 9.6 (a telecommunications program) has an option built in which handles converting PETSCII to ASCII, too. Let me know if you want more information about it.
And yeah, having .NET installed is a bit much.
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Post by pinacolada on Feb 14, 2016 2:52:31 GMT
Nice command-line fu, buzbard. Hey Hydrophilic! I see your plight there and raise you one "FreeCommander XE," a great free, orthogonal file manager for Windows -- freecommander.com/en/summary/You can do a recursive search using regular expressions on any directory, sub-directory or tree of subdirectories you wish, log results to a text file, save the particular search as a search profile, and a whole host of useful things.
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Post by pinacolada on Jun 1, 2015 21:56:28 GMT
Ok so small update to TADA project; Creative Micro Designs published a "sliding input" routine in Commodore World, issue 21, page 36. They said if credit was given to them, the routine could be used in any program, commercial or otherwise. It's an enhanced string input routine meant to be used from ML; you give it parameters like how wide the input area is, which string to use as default input, and the maximum allowed string length which can be returned. If the max length > input width, the string will scroll to the left or right. Cursor keys, INST and DEL are allowed. It also has a flashing block cursor.
I added the ability to type a quote mark (the original filtered that out, since the routine was used for inputting DOS commands, pathnames, etc. and that wouldn't have made sense. But this is being extended to be a more general-purpose INPUT routine to be used from BASIC. AgentFriday has helped a lot with achieving that goal. Now there are just some small bugs to work out. Once I get them fixed, I'll post a demo.
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Post by pinacolada on Jun 1, 2015 21:40:58 GMT
Grammar Nazi; can confirm.
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Post by pinacolada on Apr 20, 2015 23:43:52 GMT
UGH. Yes, I feel your pain, Hydro! In a recent job application, I too ran across those blasted psychological questions. IMHO they're only logical to a psycho!
Some questions I copied down:
Let's guess the word I'm thinking of, given only the first letter:
Grassland with scattered trees D R S T
RATION is most similar in meaning to Irregular Regulate Munition Percentage
I proudly display my awards and trophies. SD (strongly disagree) D (disagree) N (neutral) A (agree) SA (strongly agree)
Non-traditional approaches to problems tend to be successful. SD D N A SA
Which of the following words is different from the others? Traduce Defame Libel Praise
There were about 200 questions. And this was for a minimum wage job!
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Post by pinacolada on Sept 3, 2014 6:27:49 GMT
Probably my biggest project in ML, writing it myself that is. I took a slow BASIC program that used GET# and PRINT# to modify two Image BBS ML files and change serial # bytes embedded within it in different places, to do Kernal loads and saves. The ML is self-modifying, there's a table of patch addresses and values, then it's re-saved. It took quite a while to get the hang of the Kernal SAVE routine, it's complex! For a beginner that is. But I'll say the results are worth it. With no JiffyDOS, the process took 40 minutes. With JiffyDOS, it takes about 25 seconds!
There's a lot of weird manipulation going on with the serial # bytes, I've disassembled the code in an attempt to understand what's going on but it's not quite jelling yet. The people who did previous work did a good job, but I can't help but feel like there's more refining to be done.
Thanks, Programmer's Reference Guide!
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Jul 16, 2014 19:08:21 GMT
Post by pinacolada on Jul 16, 2014 19:08:21 GMT
Hi, just found out about this forum through hydrophilic. Thanks for putting up an alternate place to discuss C128 stuff! I just came into possession of some C128 programmers' guides, so have been giving them a look-over.
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