Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!m2c!wpi!ggray From: ggray@wpi.wpi.edu (Gary P Gray) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.sources.apple2 Keywords: new newsgroup for Apple // sources Message-ID: <13831@wpi.wpi.edu> Date: 3 Jul 90 05:20:12 GMT References: Reply-To: ggray@wpi.wpi.edu (Gary P Gray) Distribution: na Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester ,MA Lines: 30 In article jac@paul.rutgers.edu (Jonathan A. Chandross) writes: >Thus, I would like to propose a new group: > comp.sources.apple2 >to be used for the purpose of distributing Apple // related sources. >This group would contain both sources and discussion of sources and >will be moderated. I volunteer the time and the disk space has been >ok'ed. I will second this (after a bit of thought.) Having a dedicated newsgroup for apple // sources will hopefully stimulate programming in the // community. Even trivial code, if fully debugged and properly documented can speed program developement. With the introduction of a C compiler for 8bits, and with the number of languages already available for the GS, this could quite probably be a viable newsgroup. Also (from a purely nit-picky standpoint) might this be a group for disseminating new tech-notes? It is in a sense a "source" of information and they certainly aren't binaries. I can certainly scrape some assembly and possibly Zbasic sources to submit, such as macros for Merlin 8/16 to handle floating point operations, some mouse/clock/keyboard handler code I picked up and modified. And once I get the C compiler I will probably be happily churning out some stuff I've wanted to do on the Apple for a long time. -- -- WARNING!!! The above opinions may be HAZARDOUS or FATAL if swallowed!!! -- This post was in fact collaberation >> Gary Gray -- ggray@wpi.wpi.edu<< by the computer simulated personalities of Plato, Keith Moon, Mao Tse-tung, a Benedictine monk, and Ulysses S. Grant. It's all their fault.