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    From Prometheus@911:1423/0 to All on Mon Jun 23 12:30:26 2025
    Dont know if this what the base is for, but, here goes anyway.

    I started programming in 1982 using IBM System 38, utilizing RPG 1, 2, 3, 4, COBOL, and Assembly. Got a Timex Sinclair 1000 in 1983, and dove DEEP into GWBASIC. Didnt touch a computer after 1986 til 1994. Forgot EVERYTHING about programming I had ever learned. Flash forward to 2023. Started a deep dive into Linux. Learned a few basic programming skills, but really got into CONKY. Though not "really" a programming language, it does get pretty technical and requires some "grey matter" to get though. I'll share some of the ones I made if anyone is interested.

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  • From paulie420@911:1503/0 to Prometheus on Mon Jun 23 18:46:49 2025
    I started programming in 1982 using IBM System 38, utilizing RPG 1, 2,
    3, 4, COBOL, and Assembly. Got a Timex Sinclair 1000 in 1983, and dove DEEP into GWBASIC. Didnt touch a computer after 1986 til 1994. Forgot EVERYTHING about programming I had ever learned. Flash forward to 2023. Started a deep dive into Linux. Learned a few basic programming skills, but really got into CONKY. Though not "really" a programming language,
    it does get pretty technical and requires some "grey matter" to get though. I'll share some of the ones I made if anyone is interested.

    I don't know CONKY, but also dig some of the stuff you used in the past...

    I still play around w/ Lazarus PASCAL...



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  • From Prometheus@911:1423/0 to paulie420 on Mon Jun 23 22:19:46 2025
    I don't know CONKY, but also dig some of the stuff you used in the
    past...
    I still play around w/ Lazarus PASCAL...

    in the past being the key lol... I forgot most of it, but can look thru code and nit pick and change things here and there. sometimes it works, somtimes it dont. I leave that to the real coders out there. I'll stick with what im good at. I tried to learn Pascal in the past, and tinkered with VB6 with a little success.

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  • From hollowone@911:1503/0 to Prometheus on Tue Jun 24 07:33:17 2025
    EVERYTHING about programming I had ever learned. Flash forward to 2023. Started a deep dive into Linux. Learned a few basic programming skills, but really got into CONKY. Though not "really" a programming language,
    it does get pretty technical and requires some "grey matter" to get though. I'll share some of the ones I made if anyone is interested.

    What's CONKY? never heard of him :)

    -h1

    ... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.

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  • From Prometheus@911:1423/0 to hollowone on Tue Jun 24 10:58:45 2025
    What's CONKY? never heard of him :)

    easier to google it than explain it. Its basically a system monitoring type "language", used by Linux/Unix systems. I can monitor every aspect of machine. Time, temps, in depth hardware stats, drives, video, network, you name it. Basically like a widget.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@911:1415/0 to Prometheus on Wed Jun 25 08:11:39 2025
    Prometheus wrote to hollowone <=-

    What's CONKY? never heard of him :)

    easier to google it than explain it. Its basically a system monitoring type "language", used by Linux/Unix systems. I can monitor every
    aspect of machine. Time, temps, in depth hardware stats, drives,
    video, network, you name it. Basically like a widget.

    I never really thought of the language behind Conky, but loved using it
    to overlay system info on my Linux desktops.



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  • From spec@911:1607/0 to paulie420 on Mon Jun 23 23:03:03 2025
    I still play around w/ Lazarus PASCAL...


    w00t!

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  • From Prometheus@911:1423/0 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Jun 25 13:35:56 2025
    I never really thought of the language behind Conky, but loved using it
    to overlay system info on my Linux desktops.

    Im hooked on it now. Everytime I do a linux install, I have to have it :) Uses little to no resources (most of the time).

    |15Prδ|13mè|05┬hè|15ùs

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: mythologybbs.com:6984 mystic 112a48
  • From paulie420@911:1503/0 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Jun 25 17:25:31 2025
    easier to google it than explain it. Its basically a system monitori type "language", used by Linux/Unix systems. I can monitor every aspect of machine. Time, temps, in depth hardware stats, drives, video, network, you name it. Basically like a widget.

    I never really thought of the language behind Conky, but loved using it
    to overlay system info on my Linux desktops.

    Oh - that Conky??? I didn't think thats what OP was talking about... if so, I know how to 'code' up a Conky widget! :P



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    |08.........

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/29 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbS>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (911:1503/0)
  • From Prometheus@911:1423/0 to paulie420 on Wed Jun 25 21:05:22 2025
    Oh - that Conky??? I didn't think thats what OP was talking about... if so, I know how to 'code' up a Conky widget! :P

    yup :) It's fun, and gives ya a little something nice on the desktop.

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    * Origin: mythologybbs.com:6984 mystic 112a48
  • From niter3@911:1519/1 to Prometheus on Thu Jun 26 06:58:12 2025
    I never really thought of the language behind Conky, but loved using to overlay system info on my Linux desktops.

    Im hooked on it now. Everytime I do a linux install, I have to have it
    :) Uses little to no resources (most of the time).

    This is what I'm using for my Amiga OS 4.1 inspiration. :)

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  • From Prometheus@911:1423/0 to niter3 on Thu Jun 26 07:16:25 2025
    This is what I'm using for my Amiga OS 4.1 inspiration. :)

    Sadly, I've never even seen an Amiga System :) Only OS's Ive used (hands on) have been DOS, Windows, and Linux. Never even had my hands on a Mac.

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    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/32)
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  • From steviant@911:1503/0 to Prometheus on Sat Aug 2 05:24:38 2025
    Sadly, I've never even seen an Amiga System :) Only OS's Ive used
    (hands on) have been DOS, Windows, and Linux. Never even had my hands
    on a Mac.

    I know I'm taking your 'hands on' comment a bit too literally when I say this, and this is a bit of a controversial take that some people will take issue with, but by the time the Amiga and Atari ST came along the bits of the computer that you actually touch were pretty similar across all the machines. Emulation or FPGA reimplementation can give a very close approximation of what it was really like to use those machines.

    Don't hesitate to fire up an emulator and learn about those machines, you can get 99% of the experience of using those old beasts without actually needing one, and you get the huge advantage of not neccessarily needing to worry about capacitors or batteries or ancient irreplaceable ULAs or custom chips shitting themselves, managing mountains of floppy disks, blurry CRTs torching your eyeballs in the deep of the night or perished plastic and rubber breaking because you breathed in its direction.

    I made a MAME arcade machine out of an old empty JAMMA cabinet, and it's glorious, even though it's "only" emulation. That was a lightbulb moment for me, most of the joy is in the sensory parts of the experience. The feel of the joysticks and buttons, the stance you have to adopt, even the smell of particle board, and those are all things that a cabinet made of brand new parts could deliver.

    From the 16-bit era on, keyboards and mice, which are the only bits of a computer that you regularly need to touch have been pretty standard from one computer to the next, all the uniqueness of the experience resides in the parts that you don't touch. Emulating an Amiga, Atari ST, Apple IIgs, 68k Mac or an old PC is much more convincing than emulating old 8-bit machines with their wildly varying keyboards and cases.

    Don't think that just because you're only using emulation that you aren't getting a real dose of what it was like to use those old clunkers "back in the day". :)

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  • From Prometheus@911:1423/0 to steviant on Mon Aug 4 08:12:53 2025
    I made a MAME arcade machine out of an old empty JAMMA cabinet, and it's glorious, even though it's "only" emulation. That was a lightbulb moment for me, most of the joy is in the sensory parts of the experience. The feel of the joysticks and buttons, the stance you have to adopt, even
    the smell of particle board, and those are all things that a cabinet
    made of brand new parts could deliver.

    I have approx 1000 different ROMS from NES & SNES. I got hooked on Legend of Zelda (nes) way back when. Black Bass was another fav. Cant remember the name of the Emulateor, but have used MAME as well. Have a bunch of Atari 2600 ones as well, Missile Command for the win! lol..

    Don't think that just because you're only using emulation that you aren't getting a real dose of what it was like to use those old clunkers "back
    in the day". :)

    Only issue I ever had was depending on the controller, some of the ROMS didnt work as expected. The one that finally worked was a generic "no name" found in a bargain basement bin.

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    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: mythologybbs.com:6984 mystic 112a48