[Coco] PopStar Pilot blog - Next installment ready

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 03 November 2014 08:50:06 Bill Pierce via Coco did opine
And Gene did reply:
> Robert, I have to agree with Nick.... Any time I have a programming
> problem, I go to the "Coco Wizard". Without your help and advice, I
> would have never gotten my software projects as far along as they are.
> You have a tendency to look at things logically and go straight to the
> problem at hand... and finding unseen problems along the way :-) It's
> the very reason I have (very) often asked you to "test run" my
> software. You notice and find things I am overlooking. Your knowledge
> of how the system flows (RSDOS & OS9) is invaluable to the Coco
> Community. Anyone not familiar with Robert's efforts can just look at
> almost ANY source code in the OS9 repository. They will find his
> initials in the "Changes" at the top of almost every source as well as
> all through the source itself. Usually nothing major.... just a "typo"
> correction or small bug fix. But usually it corrects something that
> has been "bugging" people for years as a "long standing" bug. In
> working on my projects, I have researched every type of source code I
> can find to figure out how to do all the various things my software
> does.... and it never ceases to amaze me to find the initials, "RG" in
> an edit in someone else's code. I see it often. Many people have
> turned to Robert to help them with certain aspects of their coding. A
> fine example of this would be Lester Hands who wrote the "Lyra" MIDI
> sequencer for RSDOS. When Lester wanted to revise Lyra for
> compatibility for people who were running Kenton/RGBDOS hard drive
> systems, he contacted Robert, who then "fixed" Lyra so it would read
> the 255 "virtual disks" on the system. He didn't stop there... Through
> the years, as the state of the Coco changed and "DriveWire" was
> introduced, he continued to update Lyra to be compatible with the
> newer systems even though Lester had long abandoned Lyra and left the
> Coco Community Without Robert's knowledge and input, the current state
> of NitrOS9 would never have been as stable as it is now and
> HDBDOS/RGBDOS would never have existed. My current project, (MShell)
> is just about built around Robert's suggestions and advice. MShell's
> ability to copy RSDOS files to and from OS9 is largely Robert's work
> based on his "HRSDOS" code (which he so graciously supplied). Without
> him, I would still be looking for a way to correctly maneuver RSDOS
> files from OS9. Not to mention all the spelling corrections he's found
> in the menu systems and system messages. I'm pretty sure I am not
> alone in saying "Thank You Robert Gault"... from the entire Coco
> Community.
> 
> 
> Bill Pierce
> "Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
> 
+100 Bill.  My problem is that when I have typed my reply, I hit send 
without appending that final "Thank you, Robert.", and I apologize for 
that.  Old habits get old along with me I guess. :(

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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