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- From: ltchean@rambutan.iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)
- Subject: Which language?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.022200.11862@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Originator: ltchean@rambutan
- Sender: usenet@nuscc.nus.sg
- Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:22:00 GMT
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- I am now using Orca/M and TML Pascal II for my Apple IIGS programs. I used
- Orca/M for games and demos, and TML Pascal II for my other programs.
-
- I am very interested in designing arcade game using higher-level langauge
- rather than assembly, and also like to do programming using the toolbox.
-
- So my questions is:
-
- 1) What language (besides assembly) allows me to write games easily without
- menu and windows interface? Assembly is nice, but it is difficult to do
- path, complicated animation, etc.
-
- 2) What language allows me to write desktop program easily? TML Pascal II
- is nice for writing non-desktop program (like my Mandelbrot II GS), but
- the resource editor is next to useless. The Complete Pascal II is a joke,
- it never arrived even after a year.
-
- 3) Yes, of course these languages have to be System 6-compatible. Any
- recommended book for me to learn? I have written a full desktop painting
- program in System 4 toolbox using TML Pascal. When System 5 and TML Pascal
- II arrives, the header file changes so much, and all those Apple IIGS
- books found in Singapore only supports up to System 4.
-
- I am especially interested in these languages:
-
- 1) Complete Pascal II
- - anybody actually have this package and care to talk about it?
- - is it system 6 compatible?
- - is the resource editor good?
- - is it bug free?
- - if it is good, anybody want to sell it to me? OK, I won't buy it from
- Complete Technology, it is the same as throwing money into water.
-
- 2) Micol Advanced Basic
- - is it System 6 compatible?
- - is it fast?
- - is it easy to use?
-
- 3) Orca/C 2.0
- - is it very difficult to use? Did I need to learn all 3 books of
- toolbox references before I can start writing a useful program?
- - what exactly does it have?
-
- Thanks for any comment.
-
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- %% GS Lover Loves GS %% Author of Super Magic 3 & Mandelbrot II GS
- %% and Avatar too. %%
- Lim Thye Chean: Lim is my surname. My name is Thye Chean.
- My address: LTCHEAN@ISS.NUS.SG, or 9, College Green, Singapore 1129
-