[Coco] Basic-09

[Kevin Diggs]

Hi,

	The beauty of Basic09 & OS-9 is that if the gfx modules
don't have the draw/hdraw functions you can write your own!

	Admittedly Forest Gump would probably struggle with this.

					kevin

Robert Emery wrote:

> --- Robert Gault <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> 

> 

>>Robert Emery wrote:

>>

>>>real commands? not like display followed by 47 psuedo random numbers...?

>>>

>>

>>Are you sure you are not complaining about the RSDOS DRAW command? :)

>>

> 

> LOL, Oh puh-lease! DRAW/HDRAW is fast, totally human readable (without a

> reference book handy) and not a bad way to "compress" graphics. Nothing

> difficult at all about remembering that R moves right, D moves down, etc... and

> how hard is it to convert decimal coordinates to... decimal. Even Forest Gump

> could do that. ;-) It's Basic's CIRCLE command that totally underwhelms me. I

> even drew the pie-chart in Color FOG with an HDRAW string... much prettier.

> 

> B-09 is probably what I'll tackle first. I have books on it. The display

> command is, IMHO, less understandable than assembler. Not that it's actually

> intended to be used as a graphics drawing tool, I realize that. Just pointing

> out the confusing nature of OS-9.

> 

> I guess the way I look at it is sort of like the business world's ROI, Return

> On Investment. If I can invest a few minutes with X to get desired results but

> it takes 3 times longer with Y to do the same thing... I'm gonna use X (of

> course it's not that simple... trade-offs)

> 

> cheers,

> Bob Emery

> 

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