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Thanks for trying it out and for your suggestions. As for the white background, thanks for the information on how it plays out with astigmatism; had no idea! I

by jmmv 6y ago

Thanks for trying it out and for your suggestions. As for the white background, thanks for the information on how it plays out with astigmatism; had no idea! I'm still thinking how to add how some form of configuration so that those customizations can stick. (The new release I published today has support for an AUTOEXEC.BAS, so probably that combined with some global environment variables could do the trick.) As for graphics, definitely. I want to add the features you mention as well as PLAY for music... but that will require some reworking on how the web UI works and I'm not sure how I'd add those to the CLI. But these are definitely in my mind.

lokedhs 6y ago
Thanks for taking the time to reply. As for the colourscheme, perhaps just a simple toggle button on the web UI to allow for easy switching between light/dark? I'll be checking out the native version as well, and looking forward to graphics (if for no other reason than to revive some exploratory progarmming in BASIC that I was doing in my childhood :-) ).
- jmmv 6y ago
  Adding buttons to the UI is an alternative indeed, but so far I've resisted to add anything outside of the terminal. Once I let the environment "spill" outside of the terminal emulator, it'll be hard to draw the line on where to stop... and it'll be hard to reconcile that functionality with the command line version. (For example, right now, the editor on the web shows a status bar within the terminal, not outside.) By the way: replying back to your original post because I did not see that earlier. The idea to have a command line vs. an editor you can easily switch to came from Borland Sidekick Plus. I used to use that back in the day on an 8086 to write Clipper code, and toggling between DOS and the resident editor was very cool.
  - lokedhs 6y ago
    I see. I knew about those tools at the time, but didn't have much exposure to them as I was a Commodore 64 user, and then moved on to the ST. I did read a lot about those TSR tools on DOS though. I didn't realise they had full editors.

by jmmv 6y ago

lokedhs 6y ago

Thanks for taking the time to reply. As for the colourscheme, perhaps just a simple toggle button on the web UI to allow for easy switching between light/dark? I'll be checking out the native version as well, and looking forward to graphics (if for no other reason than to revive some exploratory progarmming in BASIC that I was doing in my childhood :-) ).

jmmv 6y ago
Adding buttons to the UI is an alternative indeed, but so far I've resisted to add anything outside of the terminal. Once I let the environment "spill" outside of the terminal emulator, it'll be hard to draw the line on where to stop... and it'll be hard to reconcile that functionality with the command line version. (For example, right now, the editor on the web shows a status bar within the terminal, not outside.) By the way: replying back to your original post because I did not see that earlier. The idea to have a command line vs. an editor you can easily switch to came from Borland Sidekick Plus. I used to use that back in the day on an 8086 to write Clipper code, and toggling between DOS and the resident editor was very cool.
- lokedhs 6y ago
  I see. I knew about those tools at the time, but didn't have much exposure to them as I was a Commodore 64 user, and then moved on to the ST. I did read a lot about those TSR tools on DOS though. I didn't realise they had full editors.