[Coco] [Color Computer] Rainbow magazine and manually typing those printed programs!

[Bill Pierce]

That's where I leaned to program, many, many hours typing Rainbow programs. I especially loved the ML programs as that was my main interest. The one that opened me up to "real" assembly and interfacing to Basic was Steve Bjork's "Mouse" which ran in a 3 part series. I leaned more about asm from those files than any others. They included interfacing to USR() cmds, re-routing the interrupts, tapping into basic's cmd tables to patch my own, mouse/joystick control, digitized sound, and hi-res graphics text (PMODE4)... all in one program. This led to many assembly projects that eventually led to a small OS mod that included all the little tricks I had found in Rainbow for BASIC & DISK BASIC. I had auto-repeating keys, 51 col screen, mouse control, direct entry cmds as in OS9 (ie. "LYRA" as opposed to "LOADM"LYRA":EXEC"), more colors with *PAINT, DS 40trk 6ms drives, and many more. This file was on every disk I started so that I could load it first. I only had a few programs (in basic) that wouldn't run under my modified RSDOS.
I was lost when I found it wouldn't run on my new Coco 3... then I discovered OS9 Lv2. Too bad Rainbow never really delved into some serious OS9 stuff. I got tired of 200 different ways to split a file or dump it. There were a couple of good things for OS9 but most were in Basic09...Too slow. Not much "C" or ML. Too bad...

Bill P

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Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com>
To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts' <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Sep 10, 2012 3:45 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Rainbow magazine and manually typing those	printed programs!


Yeah, I did!! I spent MANY hours typing my fingers to the bone. And LOVED
IT!!

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of abrower
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 12:44 PM
To: ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Coco] [Color Computer] Rainbow magazine and manually typing those
printed programs!

Did anyone else sit for hours hand typing all of those sample programs that
were printed in the back of Rainbow magazine?  I was thinking about this the
other day and it made me want to kick something new up:
http://hippobytes.com/apps-back-then/
I would LOVE to hear back from anyone - the "good ol days?"


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