I've, been pondering the state of modernism in The Times We’re In. I have a HUGE NEW ESSAY on economic and political philosophy that I’ll be posting soon. Didn’t one of you say you worked for Apple? After a few weeks using OS 10.4, I have to say DANG!ġ- it’s great, generally better than OS9.2 (though not in all ways.) And vastly better than Windows.Ģ- I have a FIST full of suggestions to improve it!ģ- I really need an OSX expert who can answer some dumb questions that are frustrating the heck outta me.Įnough on all that. If any of you know of a good line-by-line BASIC that is abso-freaking -lutely easy to understand and use, with a good tutorial included, capable of easy execution making dots move on a “screen,” for either PC or Mac, I’d be very interested.Īlso. In fact, the number of peopls who (last time) simply could not even grasp what I was looking for, and kept recommending complex, high-level stuff, shows what a mental block this is.) ![]() Old fashioned line coding, iterating to move pixels according to simple algorithms. And we DON’T want to do it using high-level complex stuff like VISUAL BASIC. We’d like to make pixels move around on a simulated CRT screen. At least we could plug in a few lines of code and PRINT results. I finally came across “Chipmunk Basic” for the Macintosh, which sufficed for a little while. ![]() Slowly, unnoticed by almost any techwriters or pundits, BASIC has vanished from all of our computers, which no longer contain a useful programming language accessible by neophytes who want to learn how to code, line by line, like in the old days. Something that would run all those wonderful little programs that he finds in so many older text books. Some of you may recall that a couple of years ago I called out for aid in finding a SIMPLE BASIC PROGRAM, to run on my son’s PC.
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