RE: Some obvious questions on WDSci ? -- WDSCI-L

Are you talking about Zoids? Probably one of the best and hardest games ever. And the soundtrack was incredible.

BTW, you can get emulators for the C64 that run in Windows, maybe also on Macs. And images of the cartridges and disks are available. I just want to see Rocky's Boots again!

Vern

At 11:34 AM 9/2/2004, you wrote:

Ron,

Remember Radar Rat Race, and that crazy game where you had to bomb the
towers!

cheers
Colin.W

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Ah the commodore 64.  I had a Vic 20 if anyone can recall that, back when
I was a kid.  After reading the book that came with it, there was a
program at the end for a tank game.  It was a ton of lines of code (or at
least to a 7 yr old it was) and I spent about 3 hours coding that game.
Got some errors, fixed them and finally got to play the game for about 5
minutes.  Then I had to use the bathroom.  Came back to find that Mom had
turned the computer off because I wasn't using it and since the program
was only in the memory and I had not backed it up to the tape drive.....
My first lesson in SAVE SAVE SAVE lol.

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Thanks for everybody's input on the RPG/400 vs. IV issue maybe now I have
some leverage.

As for the C part, this may explain some reactions (in general) from my
part:

I always did my programming for Windows, Linux and VMS in MS visual studio
(C++ and VB), just recently I started programming for the iSeries. So, you
can imagine I desperately started looking for a MS-VS like tool. So I found
WDSci, my life was good again! To bad that a lot of the tools in MS VS
(especialy the latest .NET 'Whiteby' version) are not to be found in WDSci!
And because of the poor support on RPG/400 I am forced to go back to PDM.

Can you imagine a step from MS VS .Net to SEU on a green screen? It is like
throwing away my $2000 PC and start working on my Comodore 64 again (those
were the times :-).

Like I said earlier: WDSci is going in the right direction but not realy
there yet and far to late.


But I will keep all your comments in mind and try to make the best of it!

Bas

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Namens J.Beckeringh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Verzonden: donderdag 2 september 2004 14:38
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Onderwerp: RE: [WDSCI-L] Some obvious questions on WDSci ?

Bas,

>- The main reasons for NOT converting the RPG/400 stuff to RPG/IV is:
>  - this would mean re-educate 35 people for RPG/IV (I would then
>personally chose C )
>  - We start to work with yet another language which does not realy
>improve transparency
>
>Again: I fully agree on converting, but how do I convince 35 people to
>learn RPG/IV?

RPG IV is NOT another language; it is the same language, in a slightly
different format (and extended). Re-education is not necessary (until you
want to use the added features, of course). A few years ago I told a new
programmer, who was educated in RPG III, that we used RPG IV. That same
morning he was programming in RPG IV; never looked back.

As for C: Now that is a totally different language. And since you can use
the C libraries in RPG (IV), RPG is arguably more powerful than C on the
iSeries.

Joep Beckeringh
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