Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 37
May 30, 2020
A manual for superBASIC
I’ve improved superBASIC and also made a short manual available on Amazon and most e-bookstores.
May 27, 2020
Growth does not pay for itself
Growth that doesn’t pay for itself is cancerous growth. It isn’t the growth of population that gets more expensive, but the expanding grasp of government.
May 23, 2020
The missing indexes
Whoever decided that cookbooks don’t need indexes was never stuck hungry at one o’clock in the morning with nothing but a pepper, a tomato, and a couple of cloves of garlic.
St. Mary’s Altar Society Cookbooks
The missing index for the St. Mary’s Altar Society cookbooks from 1976 through 1981.
May 20, 2020
Rudyard Kipling: The Humility of the Plague Doctor
Charts and graphs are not science. You can get charts and graphs with astrology and biorhythms. Computers can model scientific superstition just as well as they can model real theories. Bloodletting is superstition even if its done in the name of a computer model.
May 16, 2020
The Jurassic Park shutdown
You know what else was opened before it was ready?
May 13, 2020
Text to image filter for Smashwords conversions
Smashwords has very strange requirements for ebooks. This script is what I use to convert books to .doc format for Smashwords, including converting tables to images.
May 9, 2020
TRS-80 Color Computer
The TRS-80 Color Computer was a fascinating implementation of the 6809 computer chip, and was, with from the Color Computer 1 through 3, possibly the longest-running of the old-school personal computers.
May 6, 2020
The scientific creed
If science is your religion, you have chosen the hardest religion of all. If science is your religion, you don’t prove yourself right. You prove yourself wrong.
May 5, 2020
SuperBASIC: The Manual linked on Jerry Stratton
“Do you want to write BASIC programs for your Color Computer, but don’t want to deal with two-character variables and the complete lack of structure in old-school BASIC? Consider superBASIC. Use loops, multi-line if/else/endifs, include files, and more. You can even use the same code base to target computers with different hardware.”
