And then because I was annoyed with modern coding, but I'm still too caffeinated, I got back to dinking around with the Atari ST. Hisoft BASIC crashes too often for my fun, so GFA 3.5 it is.
But PRINT goes thru the VT-52 emulator, so you can't draw control chars. Gotta hit the AES(?) routines, which draw weirdly.
Program in alt text.
I could build something interesting on this stuff…
#retrocomputing #atari #atarist #basic
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄
in reply to Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄 • • •GFA keyboard controls are nuts. Top bar shows shift-F-keys, then F-keys. ESC flips to the graphics window/command line.
You might say "well it was early times", but no, GEM programs have alt-XCV clipboard, shift-arrow select, etc. VERY like Lisa/Mac not at all legally dubious. Mark Williams C has a standard microemacs and sh, with vi or emacs modes. I could install SteVIe and have a very nice vi. No, this program is just *weird*.
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Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄
in reply to Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄 • • •And you shouldn't think this is a plain text editor with a compiler. It's a structured BASIC editor that only beeps and doesn't let you leave a line that's invalid. Then it reindents it and sets uppercase keywords.
If you don't know what you're doing in it, it's reset-your-ST time.
Kids Today™ whine that they can't figure out :wq in vi, they need to use GFA BASIC and understand that you read the fucking manual before operating a program.
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Elias Mårtenson
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in reply to Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄 • • •Been poking around, and I don't think I have any of my '90s-era ST code anymore. It was archived on my gopherhole and first web site, and I thought I saved everything when I made second site with the blog. But it's not where I expect.
The Java code from '95-ish is in there.
Hrmn. I dunno who else could've archived it, if anyone. I suspect it's just lost to the ether. Bits for the bit god.
😭 (eh, I'll live)
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄
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in reply to Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄 • • •And my battlestation at [CONSLUTTING] in 2006.
Below is a minifridge so I could keep my Josta cold.
No partitions because "it's open!"
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in reply to Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄 • • •nobody i talk to seems to remember josta. i often thought i dreamed it up.
i don't remember it being around as late as 2006, though. i thought it had been discontinued before Y2K.
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