Hi, fellows! Last week I received a Mouse II and a Mouse II controller card for my //e (the mouse alone will work also in my //c). These were a couple piece of hardware I wanted from some time ago. I have some software in my collection (Beagle Bros' Double Plot, VersionSoft's MouseDesk and Apple's MousePaint), and I have allways liked the simplicity and elegance of mouse-driven user interfaces (windows, pop-up menus, dialogs, buttons...). Now I can have it in an Apple II, and better than that, I can show my friends what can be done with an 8-bit, 20-year-old machine.
The next step is clear: I'll have to write some software for the mouse. Just for the fun. In the last years I have been "intoxicated" by object-oriented and event-driven programming - some techiques that are very usefull when you have a processor capable of executing more than a billion instructions per second. I'll have to strip all but the essential and remember all the code optimization tricks to create an user interface that can be usable running in a BASIC interpreter with a 0.20 MIPs processor (I do like to write the main program in a high level language, and only some speed-critical routines in assembler). It really will be a fun task. I'll keep you informed on what's going on with that project. Greetings, Antonio Rodr�guez (Grijan) <ftp://grijan.cjb.net:21000/> -- Apple2list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Apple2list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/apple2.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/apple2list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
