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Genuine Cocoa Face
I started my shift late today. Went to Daltons Bookshop (where Garth Nix used to work), but their computer section was nothing like it used to be. Went to the Uni Co-op, which used to have a computer book section to drool over. But not any more. Tried Mac1, but they don't sell Mac books. Galloping trade in iPods, but. Went back to Borders and bought the WROX book on introductory Mac programming.
Nice big thick book to read on ranks and rest on the dashboard while driving, making sure not to corner the roundabouts too fastly.
OK. The whole Microsoft thing and the MCSD and stuff was a mistake. I'm back on the right side of the Force now.
Mac programming in Cocoa and C and Objective-C is going to be a lot of my part time life from now on.
I've got a great killer app in mind, but can't figure out how to make it work.
As a fallback, I'm looking at updating a Play By Mail game I did about twenty years back. In fact I've even got the data somewhere, if I can figure out a way to read a 5 1/4 floppy, that is.
Early days yet, but I'm enjoying playing with XCode and Interface Builder. Windows is hard work, but the Mac is just plain fun. It's a whole different world.
Nice big thick book to read on ranks and rest on the dashboard while driving, making sure not to corner the roundabouts too fastly.
OK. The whole Microsoft thing and the MCSD and stuff was a mistake. I'm back on the right side of the Force now.
Mac programming in Cocoa and C and Objective-C is going to be a lot of my part time life from now on.
I've got a great killer app in mind, but can't figure out how to make it work.
As a fallback, I'm looking at updating a Play By Mail game I did about twenty years back. In fact I've even got the data somewhere, if I can figure out a way to read a 5 1/4 floppy, that is.
Early days yet, but I'm enjoying playing with XCode and Interface Builder. Windows is hard work, but the Mac is just plain fun. It's a whole different world.
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I played an excellent game back in the early 90's which would be very boring to kids today, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, it had some pretty big adult themes, but it was so funny.
5 1/4 discs are the "real" floppy discs aren't they? I have some of those somewhere (with the aforementioned LGOP game on them)
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If you really want that data and can't find a faster way to retrieve it, Dad has an old 386 sitting in his home office with working 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 floppy drives in it. If the disk is readable under MS DOS 5.0, it should be possible to copy and send back to you.
p.s. If you don't care about having a GUI, Turbo Pascal 3 (from 1986) can still be used to write and compile programs in Vista!
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See all that going over my head!!
I turn it on, I read, I type, I turn it off.
If I turn it on, and it doesn't come on, I give it to someone to fix!!
I'm fierce techy, me!!! ;-D
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Have a hug anyway!!
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