Yes, Ken, there's been an unusually high and concentrated wellspring of Model-T Force energy flowing freely and uninhibited, as of late.
:) On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 6:41 PM Kenneth Pettit <[email protected]> wrote: > Say WHAT!!!!! > > :) > > On 10/16/26 2:22 PM, Gary Weber wrote: > > [image: image.png] > > [image: image.png] > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 12:10 PM Gary Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > and you know what would make circles look amazing? The full-height >> screen of a Tandy 200. >> >> I really like this idea. I already have the baseline of SARDOS 1.60 for >> the T200, and integrating all of the BASIC commands, directory navigation + >> CIRCLE(), won't take much. >> >> Gary >> >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 9:45 AM Justin Poirier <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Gary, >>> >>> This is incredible and begs one big question for me. CIRCLE is a huge >>> win, and you know what would make circles look amazing? The full-height >>> screen of a Tandy 200. Are there any plans for an update to the 200 ROM? >>> >>> As for the inner-workings of the CIRCLE command, on the Tandy Color >>> Computer Extended BASIC, which added the CIRCLE command, it didn't actually >>> draw a circle since calculating all of the sines and cosines would have >>> taken way too many cycles. They preloaded an internal table with the >>> geometry needed to make a (I think) 22-sided polygon and then just drew 22 >>> connected lines. At the resolution of the CoCo, it was plenty circle-ish. >>> How did you accomplish it? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> --Justin >>> >>> >>> On Fri, 2026-10-16 at 07:54 -0700, Joshua O'Keefe wrote: >>> >>> On Oct 15, 2026, at 11:45 PM, Gary Weber <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> *TS-DOS 4.20 DOS-ON+* >>> >>> SARDOS 1.80 >>> >>> SARDOS 1.80 is also available for the Model 100 and with every one of >>> the new DOS-ON keywords. >>> >>> ...and one more thing. >>> >>> CIRCLE. >>> >>> Two ROMs. Two machines. Folders at the Ok prompt. Circles on the screen. >>> >>> >>> Holy cow! Wow! Wow wow! How long have you been cooking this up? It's >>> wonderful. >>> >>> Impressive to say the least. I think I can speak for the entire >>> community and our descendants when I say: thank you. >>> >>> One question, though: how'd you pull it off? >>> >>> >>> >
