- This has not lost a single bit of relevancy in 31 years.
- Related and IMO cooler:
- All article links take you to the blog front page if you use uBlock Origin.
- Wanted to figure out how to develop for GEOS on the C=64. Turns out there are rather many things called GEOS these days. However, if you're like me, this is the link you're after:
https://archive.org/details/The_Official_GEOS_Programmers_Re...
- Very cool! I loaded it up and played around with it a bit.
Huh, I didn't know about that GEOS book back when I was a kid trying to figure out how to make GEOS programs. I wrote a letter to Berkeley Softworks asking for information about how one could develop GEOS programs, and I guess someone felt sorry for me because they sent me a huge binder with a printed version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to GEOS:
https://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/onrequest/geos/geos-manua...
I still have it today. Needless to say, as a kid, I had a great time reading it, making programs, and learning lots of new things. :)
- My C=64 childhood consisted of BASIC, Simons' BASIC and a Finnish translation of this:
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/32184/Commodore%2064.../
Trying things out without any preconceptions of how programming should work was quite an adventure.
- I like the kind of funny way this was written back then, you wont see things like this in any current (official/printed) developer documentation:
Panic - Roll Over and Die ... (Registers) destroyed: a, x, y, r0-r15, and probably much, much more
- I've installed full Slackware 3.0 off floppy disks back when it was new. Good memories.
- The article fails to mention this Windows 3-era clone of it.
https://archive.org/details/win3_COLUMNS
12-ish-year-old me spent countless hours playing this version. It has a bug where a certain pattern in two bottommost rows will be incorrectly detected as a vertical match of three and the game will crash. I learned to play in a way which avoided this glitch. Thank you for the nostalgia trip.
- It is a m68k-based workstation, not a terminal, so the software runs on the machine itself.
- Thank you for the good work. I'm using the font pack to write a theme for the Jetbrains IDE products with a certain retro aesthetic. As a hint of how it looks like, the working title is Turland Borbo.
- There's a repo which had tons of terminal colorschemes, and one of them is the Borland one:
https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes
That with a TUI IDE such as fpide for Free Pascal or WPE/XWPE for C/C++ programming can make a close Borland IDE lookalike.
I prefer to load up the proper packet drivers and MS LanMan client...