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Tony's Article
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24/03/93
This is to show you all just how easy it is to write an article, so there
will be no reason why the postman won't be crawling up to my doorstep with a
sack-full of mail.
It's a license to waffle on about things without anybody butting in. You can
have a moan or, or, or whatever you want. For instance, I'm going to have a
moan right now!
Is it just me being paranoid or has anybody else noticed how STOS users are
treated as inferior among the coding community?
I noticed in this month's ST FORMAT (by the way, I'm not knocking the mag -
it's very good) they ran a few pages on programming and how to get into it.
They reviewed the various languages that could be used and well ... I don't
know if you saw it, but I wasn't impressed with what they had to say about
STOS.
I know it's billed as "The GAME CREATOR", but they did make it sound a bit
naff, like you could make some sprites and make them shoot at each other and
that's about it. In my opinion they showed it in a very poor light.
A good program written in STOS, compiled and crunched, and you wouldn't know
if it was made in C, assembler, pascal or any other language - as long as you
change the mouse pointer and don't use the fade command.
In the same edition, in the letters page, was a piece written by a gentleman
who writes in C and all his letter consisted of was how hard C is and how easy
STOS is and how C users have to work everything out for themselves, while all a
STOS user does is look it up in the manual and that's that. Huh! WHAT !
Picture this ... It's three in the morning and I am sat at my computer still
trying to figure out how to do a certain routine or remove a certain bug. The
program is nearly finished but I've got to do this last bit. I am pulling my
hair out, I am swearing like a trooper, I am close to a nervous breakdown, it's
killing me, I can't do it. And in walks the bloke who writes in C and calmly
says, "WHY NOT LOOK IT UP IN YOUR MANUAL?"
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!
WHAT WOULD YOU DO? ANSWERS TO THE USUAL ADDRESS.
By the way, does the above scenario sound familiar or what?
I can't believe it some nights. There I am, with the best of intentions, "Oh,
I'll just do an hour". Next thing you know, it's nearly time to get up and you
haven't even got down, so to speak.
Ever thought of topping yourself? If you have done any amount of programming
then you'd have done half a program or more, then LOST IT!
Since I started programming in STOS I've had to buy a cat ... Well, you've
got to kick something haven't you? (joke).
This is one to watch out for ... Did you know that if you use a pound sign in
a REM statement it will erase all of your program from the line you used it on,
honest, try it and see.
Put a £ at the end of your REM, run it and it will either erase your program
straight away or when you list it or be really nasty and erase it all when you
save it to disk, then you only find out when you load it back up. You have been
warned!
How many times have you had STOS jam up on you? Nothing happens, no matter
what you press ... and it's always just before you were going to save!
I shouldn't be saying all this really, because the good far outways the bad.
As far as I am concerned, STOS is the best language available and not just for
making games.
If someone will send me a program that's not a game, I will review it and, if
you want, I will give it away in this diskzine. Go on ... do it.
Have you heard the latest , Atari are bringing out an STFM for £159 and are
expecting to sell 150,000 of them ,Well the more people who own ST's then the
more people who will want your P D program's etc , So get codeing ,But dont
make them 1 meg programs as the new machines are only 520s and by all
account's will be very expensive if not impossible to upgrade, I will also be
interested as to what TOS will be installed ?
I now have proof that the new FALCON computer is NOT a figment of Atari's
imagination, You see i met someone ,who knows someone, who has a brother ,
who's girlfriends dad work's in a factory where the canteen assistants nephew
best friend know's someone who has a friend who's dad has actually seen a
FALCON so there! it does exist !
STOS WILL RUN ON THE FALCON so dont worry
Well, I think that's about it for now. As this is the first issue, I have to
do all the files myself. Hopefully, I will be getting something from YOU to put
in. If you haven't already, click on the WANTED box and you will see what I am
after.
Until next month ...
This is TONY GREENWOOD signing off.
Bye.