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Len · 08-01-2004, 23:30

Hi mick
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Sorry I took so long in replying, it’s just that yesterday I spent a lot of time in the photo cropshop trying to sort things out. lol
I have never heard of an Aquarius 2k. The others I have.
The programs I did weren’t really complicated but for me they where.
I would have a menu with about four options.

Callsign
Name
Info
Location

Something like that, you could enter any of the above and it would do a search and if it was there it would print at. If not it would ask me to enter that info.
There must have been about 300 lines plus spread out over about 900 lines, may be more, just not sure.
Well it seemed like that, there was a hell of a lot of scrolling to do.
I spent hours trying to sort out errors that appeared on certain lines.
What caused it to crash, something wrong with the variable in the string A$(n)
What value was the variable, how did it get there? Allsorts of problems.
But I sorted it eventually after weeks of almost sleepless nights. lol

It was so satisfying to have the program working even though I never really used it because it was a pain to have to load it up every time I wanted to use it. lol
I think you know what I mean.
The best part for me, the bit I really enjoyed wasn’t just running it but was actually trying to sort out the problems.
I bet people must wonder how a person can get so exited about using something so simple like basic code but to me it was very complicated.
I would have never attempted to do what you did mick, far to complicated for me.

The worst thing that happens is after you have spent nearly all night modifying, making changes fixing errors, is that for no apparent reason, the all thing deletes and its all gone all that work disappears.
I know you are supposed to save from time to time which I did but because of the time it took to save and verify to a cassette recorder, I tended to leave it a bit longer. Big mistake but I always risked it.

The dc socket at the back I had glued it up with blue tack so that hopefully any movement of the keyboard wouldn’t cause it to reboot and wipe out all of my nights work.

08-01-2004, 23:30	#3
Len God Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Great Harwood Posts: 5,576 Liked: 3 times Rep Power: 3602	Hi mick . Sorry I took so long in replying, it’s just that yesterday I spent a lot of time in the photo cropshop trying to sort things out. lol I have never heard of an Aquarius 2k. The others I have. The programs I did weren’t really complicated but for me they where. I would have a menu with about four options. Callsign Name Info Location Something like that, you could enter any of the above and it would do a search and if it was there it would print at. If not it would ask me to enter that info. There must have been about 300 lines plus spread out over about 900 lines, may be more, just not sure. Well it seemed like that, there was a hell of a lot of scrolling to do. I spent hours trying to sort out errors that appeared on certain lines. What caused it to crash, something wrong with the variable in the string A$(n) What value was the variable, how did it get there? Allsorts of problems. But I sorted it eventually after weeks of almost sleepless nights. lol It was so satisfying to have the program working even though I never really used it because it was a pain to have to load it up every time I wanted to use it. lol I think you know what I mean. The best part for me, the bit I really enjoyed wasn’t just running it but was actually trying to sort out the problems. I bet people must wonder how a person can get so exited about using something so simple like basic code but to me it was very complicated. I would have never attempted to do what you did mick, far to complicated for me. The worst thing that happens is after you have spent nearly all night modifying, making changes fixing errors, is that for no apparent reason, the all thing deletes and its all gone all that work disappears. I know you are supposed to save from time to time which I did but because of the time it took to save and verify to a cassette recorder, I tended to leave it a bit longer. Big mistake but I always risked it. The dc socket at the back I had glued it up with blue tack so that hopefully any movement of the keyboard wouldn’t cause it to reboot and wipe out all of my nights work. __________________ Donate to Accyweb here: Last edited by Len; 08-01-2004 at 23:33.