JamesAcorn

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by JamesAcorn 5y ago
Many years ago I was playing around with an Acorn Archimedes (RISC OS) anagram application. It wouldn't let me create anagrams of the programmer's name, William Tunstall-Pedoe.
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by JamesAcorn 7y ago
It was called !Gravity on the Acorn Archimedes. It was written in BASIC (and possibly some assembler) and I remember it being a popular game at school to hack - change the number of planets, acceleration rate etc.
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by JamesAcorn 7y ago
About three years ago I knocked up a quick BBC Basic program (RPCemu/RISCOS) to play around with some dithering algorithms; I ended up painting the results: https://flashasm.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/more-
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by JamesAcorn 13y ago
You could get away addressing that as: GB Technical Services Unit W7a Warwick House 18 Forge Lane B76 1AH The postcode effectively encodes the post town and county. It may not be easily 'human readable' but Royal Mail will deliver it no pro
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by JamesAcorn 13y ago
Just curious.. why didn't anyone run a quick benchmark of both methods?
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by JamesAcorn 13y ago
I was thinking the same thing; my initial thoughts were Jeff Minter or James Hague, but Google is not showing anything relevant. It might simply be that a common first-time benchmark exercise for programmers moving from BASIC to assembler i
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by JamesAcorn 13y ago
'Chrome' used to refer to the GUI elements that surround a webpage - scrollbars, back button etc. Google changed that. Google will effectively Google-bomb the web development word 'blink' too. It is no big loss.
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by JamesAcorn 13y ago
Supposing you could travel back in time and give your earlier self a book (or at least, a few sheets of paper) that described 'good programming' (e.g. using GOSUB, in this context) - would you do it? Would you have been better off 'doing th