jim_lawless

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by jim_lawless 3mo ago
Agreed. I only recently found out about a book that Barden wrote (also a Sams book) that was published in 1977 called "How to Program Microcomputers". It explains the common workings of microprocessors and then goes over the make
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by jim_lawless 3mo ago
Z-80 was the processor for my introduction to programming in assembly language on a TRS-80 model I in early 1983. Bill Barden's assembly language books and Hardin Brothers' "The Next Step" column in 80 Micro magazine pa
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by jim_lawless 3mo ago
I've stood up a message board to try to recapture the fun of running an 80's/90's BBS. You can look around at : https://jims-bbs.com/bbs/ If you want to join in and post, you'll need a code for
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by jim_lawless 3mo ago
I remember seeing the TRS-80's in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou but I didn't know that they were Model IV's. According to this list, there was a TRS-80 Model III in the Star Wars TV series Andor: Andor - Season 1, Episod
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by jim_lawless 4mo ago
It looks like MiniScript uses the keyword "end" followed by another keyword to denote the end of a specific type of block. From the Quick Reference guide here: https://miniscript.org/files/MiniScript-QuickRef.
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by jim_lawless 5mo ago
You might want to check out the book "FoxTales : Behind the Scenes at Fox Software" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005KUH4GI
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by jim_lawless 6mo ago
Related HN post "Ageless Linux- Software for humans of indeterminate age" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47381791
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COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages(wired.com)
1 points by jim_lawless 7mo ago|2 comments
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by jim_lawless 9mo ago
My main page is https://jimlawless.net/ It mainly serves as a page to hold contact info and some links to various specific parts of my sites ( blogs, podcast, ...etc. )
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by jim_lawless 9mo ago
I saw a post about the SKOAR language here on HN in late 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10180423 In the comments, I saw reference to MML ( Music Macro Language ... not exactly what I think the MML is on the list
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by jim_lawless 11mo ago
I interviewed Rob Sherman the gent behind Southernamis and other Atari BBS's on my podcast a few months ago. He's running emulated Atari 8-bit systems in AWS for these BBS's. Rob also has written some articles on telnet-acc
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by jim_lawless 1y ago
I asked ChatGPT to write a Windows GUI C program that looks for a running instance of the onedrive EXE at regular intervals and terminates it while keeping a running log of the attempts in a scrolling window. It took a few iterations to ge
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by jim_lawless 1y ago
I have a handful of sites that I visit frequently. I wrote a script called "to" that has an embedded list of these sites' URL's along with some metadata that includes the preferred browser client and a short mnemonic na
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by jim_lawless 1y ago
You could do similar things on a C64 and other computers. You might try this out on a C64 emulator such as VICE. 10 REM NOTHING TO SEE HERE 20 PRINT "HELLO!" POKE 2049,1 Run it. You'll see HELLO! LIST it and you'll co
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by jim_lawless 1y ago
There was a pretty detailed article in the May 1985 Radio Electronics that mentioned interfacing it to a VIC-20: https://archive.org/details/radio_electronics_1985-05/page/n... Transactor Magazine volume 7, i
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by jim_lawless 1y ago
A TCL interpreter is packaged with Python in the tkinter library: import tkinter tcl=tkinter.Tcl() tcl.eval('puts "Hello, world!"')
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by jim_lawless 2y ago
Nope. Not me.
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by jim_lawless 2y ago
This reminds me of home computing in the late 70's when we used to keep our "database" info in DATA statements embedded in a given BASIC program. https://jimlawless.net/images/basic_data.png
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by jim_lawless 2y ago
In the early 1990's, I purchased a "Telepath" modem from a company then known as Gateway 2000 along with a computer and other gear. Qmodem for DOS was included with the Telepath. I had used a number of different terminal pro
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by jim_lawless 2y ago
Forth has a default syntax, but Forth code can execute during the compilation process allowing it to accept/compile custom syntaxes.
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by jim_lawless 2y ago
I like to write a lot of little programming interpreters and compilers that don't have a whole lot of purpose other than to experiment with a concept. One of these was a little language I called Triad ... an esoteric programming langu
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by jim_lawless 2y ago
80 Micro was a wonderful magazine. Hardin Brothers' column "The Next Step" ... a Z-80 assembly language tutorial series ... was my favorite portion of the magazine.
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by jim_lawless 2y ago
At the time of the release of Turbo Pascal 3.x, the IDE's on the CP/M version and MS-DOS version were almost identical. I suspect that the author was using TP 4.x or later on MS-DOS. Turbo Pascal on CP/M was a sweet spot amo
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by jim_lawless 2y ago
A set of Python PIL scripts for generating background / wallpaper montages. One of the output montages is here : https://jimlawless.net/magsbooks.jpg A Perl script that formats a bbcode-like markup to HTML for some of
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by jim_lawless 2y ago
I'd read a story a while back about a phone company employee who serviced payphones. He would periodically shut off power to payphones on his route, causing them to trap whatever coins the callers would insert. He'd return at a l
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by jim_lawless 2y ago
"x64 Assembly Language Step-by-Step: Programming with Linux" (4th edition) by Jeff Duntemann is a pretty good book.
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by jim_lawless 2y ago
DEBUG was also able to read/write disk blocks and it could load / save files from memory based on register settings. I had written a batch file and a file of DEBUG commands ( redirected into DEBUG ) that would load the blocks fr
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by jim_lawless 3y ago
We had a pretty active CP/M community in the 80's when the C128 was released. Most of the time I spent in CP/M mode was either running Turbo Pascal or MEX ( the Modem EXecutive ... a telecommunications program. ) We had som
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by jim_lawless 3y ago
I was particularly fond of his ATLAST Forth-like programming language. https://www.fourmilab.ch/atlast/ Rest in peace.
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by jim_lawless 3y ago
On the server side, I remember it being challenging trying to figure out how to run CGI's ... usually in Perl ... on a given site. Some sites had Perl 4, some had Perl 5. Your code might have needed either the .pl or .cgi file extens

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