On 2013-09-06, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > On 2013-09-06 20:47, Tim Delaney wrote: >> On 6 September 2013 20:35, Tim Chase wrote: >> > I'm just glad it's no longer 40-chars-per-column and purely >> > upper-case like the Apple ][+ on which I cut my programming >> > teeth. >> >> Couldn't you switch the ][+ into high-res mode? You could with >> the IIe. Made programming in DOS 3.3 BASIC so much nicer. > > There was an 80-column add-on card that also supported > lower-case (though, IIRC, you also had to do a hardware hack to > wire the <shift> key to the joystick button to get it to be > recognized in certain cases). The IIe was a far better > machine, having the 80-column card built in. PR#3 :-) > > I'm also glad Python doesn't require prefixing lines with > line-numbers for GOTO/GOSUB purposes, then requiring external > the line-renumbering utilities that AppleSoft BASIC required > :-S
Though its graphics and sound were far inferior, as a C64 user I was really jealous of the speed of the built-in Apple disk drives. The only programming I did on them was typing in some of the programs from "Compute!", back before it converted format to C64 only. Anybody care for a game of Laserchess? -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
