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The text of "Survey It Yourself: The Poor Man's Guide to Land Surveying" was
imported from a previous incarnation on an Apple IIe via direct wired RS-232
ports (null modem).
Control was with MS-DOS 3.3 and BASIC programs written for the purpose. [Am I
to believe that I am the first to want to transmit data between Apple and PC,
quickly, easily, and inexpensively?] There seemed to be some garbage thrown in
by the interface [or perhaps by that dreaded computer virus, the Apple
Insidious Dementia Subroutine?]. This was removed and a major rewrite was made
with with BLACKBEARD*.
The program "CAVEMAP1" has been completely rewritten in GW-BASIC, but has still
not been completely debugged. Some of the more esoteric subroutines have not
been included in the distribution version. If you need something different
from what is done with "CAVEMAP1", ask. I may be able to easily patch it in,
or I may think that it is such a dumb idea and such a good teaching example
that I will tell you to program it yourself. Please modify my program to fit
your job.
Graphics. The graphics on "CAVEMAP1" are CGA HiRes [640x200], mapped onto a
psuedoHercules card by HGCIBM. Why is it can I write 720x348 graphics from C,
but not from BASIC? Am I missing something obvious, or is there some great
incompatability between GW-BASIC and Hercules graphics??? There has to be a
more elegant solution than writing 640x200 graphics and then distorting them
onto a 720x348 display!!! I think that I know the answer; that the attorneys
are still waxing fat on the carcasses of IBM, Microsoft, and Hercules. Let the
bloodsuckers feast, but somebody please write a machine language subroutine
[SCREEN 99] for those of us who must write with our computers in the meanwhile.
* Is there something strange about the way I think that makes me prefer
BLACKBEARD to all other word processors? Is it simply that BLACKBEARD does
just what I would expect it to do and does it with a simple mnemonic keystroke,
or does BLACKBEARD make the operator think like BLACKBEARD? Who was it that
dreamt up such keystrokes as control-alternate-F8 [or is it alternate-shift-
grey-slash plus control-shift-F8] as the command to do some simple task?
No wonder my mailbox is stuffed with offers to teach my secretary some well-
-advertised computer program or another at a weeklong seminar costing only
$999.99 [plus meals, lodging, transportation, and tips for these ophioleum
marketing engineers]. A pox on computer salesmen! A viron on computer
software salesmen!! A meme for independent bitflippers.