Prev: I think it's time for a brand new O/S
Next: Vic-20/C64 games and game development
From: sampsa on 23 Jan 2010 18:30
On Jan 23, 12:15 am, David Murray <adri...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> I still don't understand this obsession with finding something to code
> for a Commodore 8-bit that you can sell to people.  After all, how big
> do you think your audience is?   I bet even if you made the most
> spectacular program ever for the C64 you'd probably be lucky to get 50
> orders.  Something like a compiler, which is used by a minority of the
> user base, you might get 2 orders.

You do realise Mr Potter is either batshit insane or a very persistent
troll, right?

No point trying to fathom any sense in his postings.
From: Bill Buckels on 25 Jan 2010 18:26
On Jan 23, 5:30 pm, sampsa <samp...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> You do realise Mr Potter is either batshit insane or a very persistent
> troll, right?

Then he is more or less typical, right?

> No point trying to fathom any sense in his postings.

Right. The audience for any of this is small so spending years or a
lifetime on any of this makes little economic sense just as most of my
stuff.

I am still wondering why I have spent so many hours in recent years
playing with Vintage computers and old C compilers. If anyone can make
any sense out of any of this feel free to let me know, thanks:)






From: winston19842005 on 25 Jan 2010 20:14
On 1/25/10 6:26 PM, in article
948ad0b3-1530-4b6f-bec0-775e218f3370(a)l11g2000yqb.googlegroups.com, "Bill
Buckels" <bbuckels(a)escape.ca> wrote:

> On Jan 23, 5:30�pm, sampsa <samp...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> You do realise Mr Potter is either batshit insane or a very persistent
>> troll, right?
>
> Then he is more or less typical, right?
>
>> No point trying to fathom any sense in his postings.
>
> Right. The audience for any of this is small so spending years or a
> lifetime on any of this makes little economic sense just as most of my
> stuff.
>
> I am still wondering why I have spent so many hours in recent years
> playing with Vintage computers and old C compilers. If anyone can make
> any sense out of any of this feel free to let me know, thanks:)
>

Bill,

Step back, relax, and take a look at Potter's posts. He's never done
anything except create some silly template generator. Everything else is
talk. This isn't an attack on programming, making a better C compiler or
anything of the like. It is simply pointing out that even following Potter's
posts is a waste of time.

You've done a lifetime of programming. I don't think Potter has ever done
any real programming. You've created useful apps. I admit I've never used
any of them, being that you program for the wrong platform (grin), but I
cannot even begin to criticize your work or your life.

Harry Potter can't show any work. When he accomplishes something, anything
worthwhile, maybe he will earn some respect.

Even I've done some good programming, albeit back in the past. My high point
was 1989, when I wrote Dezip for the TI-99 in small-C, finally included
support for Unimploding. Shortly after, PKZIP1.10c came out with a new
compression method... one that was too mysterious for me and required way
too much memory. Oh well, at least I did some nice stuff!

I also managed to rewrite some C code for the IQ ad hoc reporting tool to
fix the awful date conversion routines that our vendor supplied for it and
Y2K that puked all over the place, losing data on the reports and causing
them to run about 10 times longer than normal. My code was so fast that the
reports ran at original speed, and there was no data loss. It wasn't great
code, per se, but it was one of those "Aha!" moments where I had a much
simpler design. This was for a small wireless company that went by the
strange name of Verizon. All I got out of this was satisfaction and a small
comment inserted by the vendor stating they "accepted" my modifications. And
I got to keep my job for another two years. Yea... but that is life.

From: christianlott1 on 26 Jan 2010 17:10
On Jan 25, 5:26 pm, Bill Buckels <bbuck...(a)escape.ca> wrote:

> I am still wondering why I have spent so many hours in recent years
> playing with Vintage computers and old C compilers. If anyone can make
> any sense out of any of this feel free to let me know, thanks:)

simple. look at the ones who should have gone back to their roots. you
know who they are. the ones who were once great then sold out and
became failures.
From: Bill Buckels on 29 Jan 2010 04:26
On Jan 26, 11:44 pm, "winston19842...(a)yahoo.com"
<winston19842...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ah, I see. You are using the argument that he, being younger and "full
> of dreams", with so much potential is worth more than yourself,
> because you are older and have less potential, having reached some
> plateau. That argument only works for me in life and death situations,
> where I'd probably save the baby instead of the adult.

If its any consolation I would save you first:)

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3439848&l=ef97d03bf8&id=587089785

First  |  Prev  | 
Pages: 1 2
Prev: I think it's time for a brand new O/S
Next: Vic-20/C64 games and game development