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JoOngle
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Posted: 02:56pm 04 Oct 2020

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thwill said

What is missing compared with the 80's is:

1) the inch-thick manuals that with the benefit of hindsight were actually comprehensive BASIC programming courses.

2) the magazines and books full of type-ins.

We have the new 80's hardware but not the supporting material ... the internet is very much a different beast, better in some ways than manuals, but spoon feeding answers and requiring less of the thinking that will set you in good stead when the answers aren't immediately available. Plus copy & paste teaches you infinitely less than typing in a program and then fixing all the bugs that both you and the original author / typesetter introduced.

Feeling nostalgic for his childhood,

Tom

Spot on TOM!

This is exactly how I feel. And at some time, there should be someone offering a Printed-Manual for sale, with HUGE easy and CLEAR text to read, with code-examples like the Commodore days (with pictures of the results) step-by-step.

I find it hard to switch between the PC and the CMM2 and transfer the programs, SD-card-in, SD-Card-Out, back and forth, looking at the forum, it's so cumbersome that it simply makes my brain go "oh, well - later"...

Nothing beats a good old "hardcopy" in one hand, and the keyboard in the other.

But the development of this CMM2 basic has gone so fast lately, that the manuals should probably WAIT until the code is mature enough (especially on the graphics side of things), because thankfully Peter is a VERY ACTIVE developer, and I can see he works so hard on it, and I keep my eyes peeled for every update he releases.

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