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From: "Keith" <keithvz at verizon.net>
To: <General at olddell.com>; "Discussion at
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Off-Topic
Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: semi-OT: do you routinely attempt projects out of your
comfortzone?
Andrew Burton wrote:
> Considering that I have never been on a programming course and have
entirely
> tought myself from books and examining code, I
would say that I mostly
stick
> to what I know and only learn new stuff (coding
techniques, new
languages
> etc.) when I have to. In the last 5 years that
includes compression (LZW
and
> RTE/RLE), complements (2, 9 and 10), the .BMP
format (urgh, why have it
all
upside down
and back to front deliberately!), BCD numbers, CSV files and
various other things.
Hahaha. I looked at BMP recently. For some image processing application
I was thinking about writing.
[1] Motorola 68000 ASM was very easy to pick up
and understand,
but I am still learning techniques to make my code more efficient :)
One of my side projects is learning 68000 code for 1> eventually build
my own 68k computer, and 2> understand the amiga much better.
Keith
I certainly understand the Amiga much better now. Though it does make most
demos less impressive now, as I can easily work out how most of it is done.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk