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From: mdavis@pro-sol.cts.com (Morgan Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Controlling a modem from BASIC
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Date: 9 Jan 91 19:36:14 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from mmansell@student.UVic.CA

Michael,

Here's a message from my site that was posted in reply to a very similar
request about writing BBS's in Applesoft.  This pretty much says it all.

CS-ID: #1587.apple/tech@pro-sol 1062 chars
Date: 7 Jan 91 17:40:14 PST
From: ldc@pro-sol.cts.com (Larry Colton)
Subject: BBS's
 
Two posts just hit pro-sol about similar topics: writing custom I/O routines
and looking for a cheap BBS.  Let me suggest that for both cases the answer
has been provided by Morgan in the form of ModemWorks.  Hey, it ain't free,
but it might as well be.  For the $60 you'll get a package free of headaches
and pain that allows you to work magic with Applesoft.  And I do mean magic.
 
I know that Scott said he just got an assembler and wants to learn assembly
code.  The _best_ way to learn is by examining good code that is already
written.  There are enough variables in dealing with a modem that it can be
very frustrating, even if the software is already written.  Trying to reinvent
the wheel and then get everything working is just asking for trouble and
unneeded frustration.
 
Use Applesoft to control the BBS, define the menus, handle the user interface,
etc, but let ModemWorks do the hard and critical part.  The features of MW are
too mumerous to list here, contact Morgan, me or log on to pro-sol and look
around the mdg conference for more details.
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