Post by taylor0987 on Apr 25, 2007 18:38:35 GMT -5
hello
last night I logged on to some telbbs' using winvice running touchterm, and it brought back a lot of memories.
does anyone have touchterm version 3.7?
that's me circled in the red
Touchterm started off being based on some other term that was written in BASIC.
The top line started off as some irq based clock program that I found in a magazine and I added the status indicators and the top scrolling touchterm part.
The sprite editor was ripped out of Compute! or Compute's Gazette. i guess that these days we call things like that "bloat." But I was really young then and did not know any better.
A significant chunk of the code was borrowed from other places that I never credited but I spent countless hours coding BASIC and ML getting that thing together. except for the punter ml and the basis of the status line, and a couple other small routines i did all of the ml code in some assembler program.
The BASIC part became so huge. I was editing it on a c64 still but used a couple utilities I got out of magazines--one that allowed me to have the lines in the program up to 255 (254?) characters and another that relocated the BASIC ROM up higher in RAM. It would not even run until I compiled it with that hacked version of Blitz!
I had made some improvements in the ML and was using that version myself for a while. I don't remember if I ever released that file--so I will have to disassemble one of these versions that I have downloaded to see. One of the changes I made to make it faster was that I rewrote the sprite cursor positioning--the old version calculated the position every time while the new version used a table and just added the offset. It made a difference even running it at 1200 baud. it also was much faster without the status line interrupt running...
I also had big plans to rewrite significant chunks of it and eventually the whole thing into ML. I had a nice tiny program doing the disc commands but it didn't get any farther than that--in 1987 I turned 16, got a driver's license and some hormones and pretty much left it behind me.
last night I logged on to some telbbs' using winvice running touchterm, and it brought back a lot of memories.
does anyone have touchterm version 3.7?
that's me circled in the red
Touchterm started off being based on some other term that was written in BASIC.
The top line started off as some irq based clock program that I found in a magazine and I added the status indicators and the top scrolling touchterm part.
The sprite editor was ripped out of Compute! or Compute's Gazette. i guess that these days we call things like that "bloat." But I was really young then and did not know any better.
A significant chunk of the code was borrowed from other places that I never credited but I spent countless hours coding BASIC and ML getting that thing together. except for the punter ml and the basis of the status line, and a couple other small routines i did all of the ml code in some assembler program.
The BASIC part became so huge. I was editing it on a c64 still but used a couple utilities I got out of magazines--one that allowed me to have the lines in the program up to 255 (254?) characters and another that relocated the BASIC ROM up higher in RAM. It would not even run until I compiled it with that hacked version of Blitz!
I had made some improvements in the ML and was using that version myself for a while. I don't remember if I ever released that file--so I will have to disassemble one of these versions that I have downloaded to see. One of the changes I made to make it faster was that I rewrote the sprite cursor positioning--the old version calculated the position every time while the new version used a table and just added the offset. It made a difference even running it at 1200 baud. it also was much faster without the status line interrupt running...
I also had big plans to rewrite significant chunks of it and eventually the whole thing into ML. I had a nice tiny program doing the disc commands but it didn't get any farther than that--in 1987 I turned 16, got a driver's license and some hormones and pretty much left it behind me.
