Author: Will Singleton
Date: 15:22:09 01/25/99
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On January 25, 1999 at 16:43:43, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 25, 1999 at 12:19:09, Will Singleton wrote: > >>Hello. Nice to have you on the group. As an amateur programmer, I find it >>extremely, extremely presumptuous of you to copy the crafty code, and then pass >>this program off as something new. My current program is a development of a >>program I wrote in 1977 in 6502 assembly, and then expanded in 1986 on the >>68000. I converted it to C last year, and then over time put in all I learned >>from this newsgroup and a full set of ICCC journals. It's been a slow, >>incremental process, but at this point, right now, I can say that it's an honest >>program, and I know what's in it and how it works. You and your team cannot, I >>suspect. >> > >I have a quick question, since I try to 'know the people I chat with' here... > >I had pegged Will as relatively young, for reasons that are unknown now. And >it is none of my business, to be sure, but the above statement got me to >thinking, because 1999-1977 = 22 years ago. And if Will was programming in >assembly back then that would put him at 40+ now? Was I grossly wrong in >estimating your age Will? Sorry if I did, which is why I am asking now... > >IE most know that I am 50 years old, born March 18, 1948, so you have some idea >of who you are talking to. I just hate to make a guess and then find out I am >way off... > Thanks Bob, I needed that! Now if you could just look at me and say the same thing... <g> Well, I see you may have forgotten the moderator's pre-election statements already (age was listed). Young is probably a state of mind, though. Anyone who is actually interested in *chess programming*, for god's sake, has got to have some life left in him. Actually, I understand, since most of the questions I have asked around here are questions stemming from my lack of programming knowledge. Recall that I'm not a computer programmer by trade, but rather a real estate developer with an interest in chess and programming. But, so you won't have to look it up, I'm 45. So in 1977, when the AppleII came out, I was 24, and learned 6502 programming from a Motorola MOS (?) instruction book. There was actually no compiler at the time, so I programmed in machine code. Had almost forgotten about that. There was also a red book, called Apple Peeled, I think, that listed the ROM in 6502. Had to know what to poke in there. Will
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