3 Jan
2012
3 Jan
'12
3:19 a.m.
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Gene Buckle <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
Right. ?The mind blower is that David(?) Simons was 13
or 14 when he sold
the software to Commodore. :)
I do remember he was quite young - a proud achievement, to be sure.
Those people that I knew who had it, loved it, but they were the sort
to take BASIC to the limit and not explore any further (other
languages, assembler, etc). They knew BASIC and wanted to write stuff
on a shallower learning curve. It was perfect for them.
I suspect there were other non-cart BASIC enhancement
packages. ?Adding new
keywords to CBM BASIC was pretty well understood.
It certainly was well understood - I even wrote my own hacks, based on
examples from some of my ROM expansions from my PET days. Much like
the DOS Wedge, though, I didn't do it to extend BASIC programs as much
as to extend command-line functionality. I can't remember adding
anything that didn't make sense embedded in a running program.
-ethan