Re: OT: Re: How to work with Arrays using positional RPG IV

Well mostly I used a C64 with sprite support etc. Don't remember doing much peeking and poking but that may be my ancient memory.

I "play" with a lot of stuff on Mac and (lately) Linux mostly for the fun of it. Not to mention Scratch on an iPad. So I understand the joy of just playing - but even a 150 can run V5 and that was a big improvement not just in RPG. Admittedly you'd have to keep reloading the OS since you wouldn't have valid license keys but to me it would be worth it on a non-production machine.

As you've already noticed fixed form samples are becoming harder to find in part because the biggest resource (iPro News) has gone off air and the content can't be recovered from the way back machines.

On Aug 22, 2020, at 2:59 PM, Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Jon,

Am 22.08.2020 um 19:38 schrieb Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Each to his own perversion I guess.

Exactly.

Messing with a Commodore is fun though (albeit slow fun) but fixed from RPG?

Where's the fun in cumbersome PEEK and POKE because of the limitations of the ROM-Basic? How can it be fun to put your programs on really slow audio cassettes, with the need to manual adjust volume for omitting distortion? Where's the joy about sitting in front of an old, blurry and 60 Hz refresh TV giving you a headache from flickering? How can even typing on that dreaded keyboard even be fun?

Maybe this helps you understand. ;-)

Sorry the joy completely escapes me - it is not as if the world needs any more examples - there are enough of them out there.

I guess because you're doing IBM i for a living, and you've gone through all the modernization features you learned to love, I assert you have a different, professional view on the topic. :-)

My first real AS/400 experience started not much more than a decade ago, from zero, with a model 400 with a license V4R4 and erased disks. Even my solid background on Linux and Networking wasn't of much help. I'm not doing all of that for a living, but because I can, because I want and because I feel a great appeal to the way the (older) machines are engineered.

:wq! PoC

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