Anyone up? I am fighting with Applesoft BASIC (and losing). Looking for late-night phone support... ________________________________ Evan Koblentz, director Vintage Computer Federation a 501(c)3 educational non-profit evan@vcfed.org (646) 546-9999 www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation
I recommend reorganizing the code so that it isn't spaghetti code. New BASIC programmers without formal training (e.g. a college course) tend to structure code in "spaghetti" format. I recommend using more GOSUB calls instead of GOTO. Make subroutines and use GOSUB. Also structure with IF this THEN that ELSE something else. GOSUB x On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 1:55 AM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Anyone up? I am fighting with Applesoft BASIC (and losing). Looking for late-night phone support...
________________________________ Evan Koblentz, director Vintage Computer Federation a 501(c)3 educational non-profit
evan@vcfed.org (646) 546-9999
www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation
-- Jeff Brace - ark72axow@gmail.com
There's no ELSE in Applesoft. On 02/16/2017 08:23 AM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I recommend reorganizing the code so that it isn't spaghetti code. New BASIC programmers without formal training (e.g. a college course) tend to structure code in "spaghetti" format. I recommend using more GOSUB calls instead of GOTO. Make subroutines and use GOSUB. Also structure with IF this THEN that ELSE something else. GOSUB x
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 1:55 AM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Anyone up? I am fighting with Applesoft BASIC (and losing). Looking for late-night phone support...
________________________________ Evan Koblentz, director Vintage Computer Federation a 501(c)3 educational non-profit
evan@vcfed.org (646) 546-9999
www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation
________________________________ Evan Koblentz, director Vintage Computer Federation a 501(c)3 educational non-profit evan@vcfed.org (646) 546-9999 www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
There's no ELSE in Applesoft.
yea, remember at one point we had to emulate the IF/THEN/ELSE by using the ON expr GOSUB line1,line2,line3.... but then we didn't need it any longer for that last job
On 02/16/2017 08:23 AM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I recommend reorganizing the code so that it isn't spaghetti code. New BASIC programmers without formal training (e.g. a college course) tend to structure code in "spaghetti" format. I recommend using more GOSUB calls instead of GOTO. Make subroutines and use GOSUB. Also structure with IF this THEN that ELSE something else. GOSUB x
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 1:55 AM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Anyone up? I am fighting with Applesoft BASIC (and losing). Looking for
late-night phone support...
In that case, you have to use the next best thing which is a bunch of IF ... THEN ... where the condition drops down to the next line if it isn't true and uses a GOSUB to do the routine and return back to the last line executed. On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
There's no ELSE in Applesoft.
On 02/16/2017 08:23 AM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I recommend reorganizing the code so that it isn't spaghetti code. New BASIC programmers without formal training (e.g. a college course) tend to structure code in "spaghetti" format. I recommend using more GOSUB calls instead of GOTO. Make subroutines and use GOSUB. Also structure with IF this THEN that ELSE something else. GOSUB x
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 1:55 AM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Anyone up? I am fighting with Applesoft BASIC (and losing). Looking for
late-night phone support...
________________________________ Evan Koblentz, director Vintage Computer Federation a 501(c)3 educational non-profit
evan@vcfed.org (646) 546-9999
www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation
Evan Koblentz, director Vintage Computer Federation a 501(c)3 educational non-profit
evan@vcfed.org (646) 546-9999
www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation
-- Jeff Brace - ark72axow@gmail.com
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I recommend reorganizing the code so that it isn't spaghetti code. New BASIC programmers without formal training (e.g. a college course) tend to structure code in "spaghetti" format. I recommend using more GOSUB calls instead of GOTO. Make subroutines and use GOSUB. Also structure with IF this THEN that ELSE something else. GOSUB x
yea, I think it went something like this.....
From God to Lasagna code to Pasta code to Ravioli code and down to Spaghetti code :)
Someone sounds like a Pastafarian. ;-) Henry S. Courbis Office Toll Free: (800) REACTIVE (732-2848) Office/Mobile Direct: (856) 779-1900 www.ReactiveMicro.com - Sales, Support, and News, Our Headquarters on the Internet ReactiveMicro.com/wiki - Support, Software, Manuals, and History. Create your own page today! Facebook.com/reactivemicrousa - Our Social Media Outlet and Support On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I recommend reorganizing the code so that it isn't spaghetti code. New BASIC programmers without formal training (e.g. a college course) tend to structure code in "spaghetti" format. I recommend using more GOSUB calls instead of GOTO. Make subroutines and use GOSUB. Also structure with IF this THEN that ELSE something else. GOSUB x
yea, I think it went something like this.....
From God to Lasagna code to Pasta code to Ravioli code and down to Spaghetti code :)
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 12:40 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Anyone up? I am fighting with Applesoft BASIC (and losing). Looking for late-night phone support...
I was up but didn't see this message till this morning what happened this time, you get it going then ? Dan
btw, I finally found the disk images for the one Applesoft Basic compiler from Beagle Bros. This was considered the best version and fastest compile time They have their own archive http://beagle.applearchives.com/the_software/vintage_beagle_bros_softwar/the... Dan
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