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Create a front-end for 2MF?
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Harry Potter
2019-04-13 20:56:45 UTC
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Should I? Would anybody out there use it? I can create it in VBDOS Pro 1.0 and upload it as public domain. :)
JJ
2019-04-14 00:34:02 UTC
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Post by Harry Potter
Should I? Would anybody out there use it? I can create it in VBDOS Pro
1.0 and upload it as public domain. :)
Why did you even come up with that idea?
Harry Potter
2019-04-14 01:48:29 UTC
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Post by JJ
Post by Harry Potter
Should I? Would anybody out there use it? I can create it in VBDOS Pro
1.0 and upload it as public domain. :)
Why did you even come up with that idea?
Because I found 4Mat online and created a utility called CFloppy to compress floppies using JAM. :)
T. Ment
2019-04-14 02:11:52 UTC
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Post by JJ
Post by Harry Potter
Should I? Would anybody out there use it? I can create it in VBDOS Pro
1.0 and upload it as public domain. :)
Why did you even come up with that idea?
YBT.
Harry Potter
2019-04-14 03:29:27 UTC
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YBT.
What's YBT?
Kerr-Mudd,John
2019-04-14 08:40:44 UTC
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Post by JJ
Post by Harry Potter
Should I? Would anybody out there use it? I can create it in VBDOS
Pro 1.0 and upload it as public domain. :)
Why did you even come up with that idea?
YBT.
I don't think so; just living in the past, (but hey we're posting in this
NG!)
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Bah, and indeed, Humbug.
Harry Potter
2019-04-14 14:42:26 UTC
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Okay. :(
T. Ment
2019-04-14 15:41:46 UTC
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Post by Kerr-Mudd,John
Post by JJ
Why did you even come up with that idea?
YBT.
I don't think so; just living in the past
A retro hobby is worthwhile, if it teaches you something useful. Like
Fortran, COBOL, Pascal, C, Assembly, i.e., mainstream computer science
material.

VBDOS Pro does not qualify.

Do something worthwhile. Learn assembly. Disassemble old shareware to
reverse engineer it. Fix the bugs. There's an endless supply of bugs to
fix in old software.
Grant Taylor
2019-04-14 17:22:53 UTC
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Post by T. Ment
A retro hobby is worthwhile, if it teaches you something useful. Like
Fortran, COBOL, Pascal, C, Assembly, i.e., mainstream computer science
material.
I largely agree. Substitute "something you want to learn" in place of
"useful" and I completely agree.

Something doesn't /need/ to be "useful" to have "value".
Post by T. Ment
VBDOS Pro does not qualify.
VBDOS may not be /teach/ something useful. But it may /do/ something
useful.
Post by T. Ment
Do something worthwhile. Learn assembly. Disassemble old shareware to
reverse engineer it. Fix the bugs. There's an endless supply of bugs to
fix in old software.
If Harry wants to use VBDOS to create an interface / wrapper for
something he uses (2MF) to make his use thereof easier, well in my book,
that's useful.

Or if the act of creating said interface / wrapper he learns more about
2MF, then VBDOS did something useful. Even if it wasn't /teaching/
something about itself.

Harry has sufficiently demonstrated that he wants to do some things that
I question the usefulness of. But, he wants to do them, and asks
questions. If I can answer, who am I to judge how useful the
information is to someone else?

We each blaze our own path. Some of our paths are significantly
different than other people's paths. So what.
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Grant. . . .
unix || die
T. Ment
2019-04-14 17:45:01 UTC
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Post by Grant Taylor
Harry has sufficiently demonstrated that he wants to do some things
that I question the usefulness of. But, he wants to do them, and asks
questions
Some people just like to be annoying. He can go bother some atheists.
They deserve it.
Grant Taylor
2019-04-14 18:56:53 UTC
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Post by T. Ment
Some people just like to be annoying.
Yes, some people do. In my experience, most do not.
Post by T. Ment
He can go bother some atheists.
He's not bothering me. In fact, I find what he's doing mildly
interesting if not entertaining.
Post by T. Ment
They deserve it.
I disagree.
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Grant. . . .
unix || die
Kerr-Mudd,John
2019-04-15 09:50:45 UTC
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On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 18:56:53 GMT, Grant Taylor
Post by Grant Taylor
Post by T. Ment
Some people just like to be annoying.
Yes, some people do. In my experience, most do not.
Post by T. Ment
He can go bother some atheists.
He's not bothering me. In fact, I find what he's doing mildly
interesting if not entertaining.
Post by T. Ment
They deserve it.
I disagree.
Careful! this is a classic troll move.
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Bah, and indeed, Humbug.
T. Ment
2019-04-15 13:39:53 UTC
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Post by Kerr-Mudd,John
Careful! this is a classic troll move.
Atheists, and Harry, are annoying. They should meet. If that's trolling,
maybe atheists are too sensitive and doubt themselves. I'm not trying to
start an argument. Take it like a man and move on.

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