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:Hey man! Welcome to the wiki! You've been greatly missed mate... please do drop by the forum! [[User:Gryzor|Gryzor]] 07:32, 25 July 2010 (UTC) | :Hey man! Welcome to the wiki! You've been greatly missed mate... please do drop by the forum! [[User:Gryzor|Gryzor]] 07:32, 25 July 2010 (UTC) | ||
| + | == These Days == | ||
| − | + | I feel I want to contribute to the scene with the aid of writing Turbo Pascal programs and applying Machine Code routines to those programs to generate something inbetween the quality of an Assembly program and BASIC program! | |
| − | In | + | In addition to Turbo Pascal I'm looking at another Amstrad Pascal Compiler. Hisoft Pascal 4T which is slightly older than Turbo Pascal again, though |
| − | + | compiles programs under AMSDOS. Unfortunately while I like CP/M 2.2 and Turbo Pascal 3 and it's abilities, it's drawback is it only compiles CP/M | |
| − | + | "com" files. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it just seems CP/M community don't appreciate this, I've had some other issues in the way CP/M | |
| + | handles itself on a 64k system which makes it annoying to use if it's a 1 Disc setup. :( | ||
Revision as of 02:22, 2 September 2012
So glad to see the CPC-Wiki is still with us! I came here a while back after discovering the CPC Forum had disappeared and discovered this was down as well! :o
My first computer I was using was an Amstrad CPC464 which was more or less the family computer - circa 1984. Initally I didn't know much about computers and I even recall having problems using the keyboard. The CPC464 we had was bare bones, no Disc Drive, or colour monitor, in some ways it was good having a Green Screen - early in the piece my Dad got a Modulator (MP1?) to plug our computer to the TV, but ended up returning it because he wasn't satisfied by the quality of it! :( There was one type-in from the Manual I could type-in because it didn't use and Shift Key labels to make it work and everything else was CTRL+Small Enter key to load the games! Joysticks were always being broken too from games like Astro Attack and Harrier Attack due to fast reactions from the user, which was a thing in the past in the late 80s when after purchasing AA44 which had a Joystick special in it, I went out and brought a Star Cursor Joystick. Still have it today though I brought an Amstrad CPC6128 with Colour Monitor in the early 90s.
These days unfortunately I'm more involved out in the Environment, I still have the old CPC6128 - we gave away our CPC464 cause nobody else seemed to want it, I was doing some stuff on my old IBM PC with Caprice32 emulator, unfortunately the hard disk on that computer seems to be on it's way out and was looking to replace it with a Emulator for my Mac Based Laptop.
- Hey man! Welcome to the wiki! You've been greatly missed mate... please do drop by the forum! Gryzor 07:32, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
These Days
I feel I want to contribute to the scene with the aid of writing Turbo Pascal programs and applying Machine Code routines to those programs to generate something inbetween the quality of an Assembly program and BASIC program!
In addition to Turbo Pascal I'm looking at another Amstrad Pascal Compiler. Hisoft Pascal 4T which is slightly older than Turbo Pascal again, though compiles programs under AMSDOS. Unfortunately while I like CP/M 2.2 and Turbo Pascal 3 and it's abilities, it's drawback is it only compiles CP/M "com" files. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it just seems CP/M community don't appreciate this, I've had some other issues in the way CP/M handles itself on a 64k system which makes it annoying to use if it's a 1 Disc setup. :(
