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Missed out on that one sadly, being an Atarian 
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the horror !!!!!! maybe u should do a rewrite in wpf ...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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How do you know when you are an old developer?, Alex
...sorry, I thought this was Jeopardy.
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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Somewhere, deep in the recesses of the loft, I have a copy of "Computer & Video Games" magazine from, I'm guessing 1982 or 83 featuring the listing of my VIC20 fruit machine program.
This was all in Basic and used up every one of the 3,583 bytes available on the unexpanded machine.
I did later get a C64 but only ever used it for final year university project which was a demonstrator for a 256 channel digital lighting system (a few channels of sample hardware, along with the software).
This was Basic for the front end, creation and editing of lighting sequences etc but used assembly when running a sequence in the background.
Used the interrupt (60 times a second IIRC) to check if the level of any channel ought to be changed before handing back to the "OS"
Originally, used zero crossing detector circuit and some maths to decide the exact point in the mains cycle to turn the current on/off to get the desired brightness until luckily, someone brought out a chip that just let you set the level digitally and it took care of all the pesky on/off work with the power electronics.
However, if you ask me what happened yesterday ...
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(Bacon of the Day)
BACON!
(see JSOP post below)
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Hey - take that to the new Soapbox.
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Kevin!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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With the soapbox being shutdown on Sept 1, will we still be able to say "bacon" elsewhere on CP?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Wash your mouth out with soap. 
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BACON flavoured SOAP, I assume?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Bacon your pardon, but I don't understand your question.
modified 28-Aug-19 12:58pm.
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As long as you don't say "Jehova[^]" 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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yes, but if we start debating on the preferred style of bacon and how to cook it, then we all get banned.
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Hmmm,
There is at least one positive thing coming out of this. You will no longer need to worry about why you are missing hrefs.
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I thought it was an obligatory condition of CP membership to say it at least once a month.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Bacon.
(just in case)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I recently got pulled in to help out on a 30+ years old mainframe project written in COBOL. It was a bit of shock to realise how much I remembered, since it had been 30+ years since I last worked with COBOL!
I occasionally miss my old FORTRAN days (most recently Fortran 77 rather than FORTRAN IV) but I never have yearned to do COBOL (or even PL/1) again.
Nostalgic thoughts?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
modified 28-Aug-19 11:06am.
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I kinda miss Turbo Pascal... Most fond memory of it was that it was only $30.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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$30 Dollars, or a few floppies to the right person at college... I wonder why Borland had troubles $30!
Pascal and it's grown up brother Modula2...
Begin
writeln("hello world")
End. and on...
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$30 was a long way from $1000 for Borland Pascal...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Was there a difference then? I always thought Turbo was the update for 386.
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"Turbo Pascal" with a single manual and 5-1/4 floppy disk became "Borland Pascal" - a monstrosity with four/five manuals and several 3.5 floppies. Along with the change, the cost increased astronomically.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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