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2021-09-15 18:57

Starfox

Registered: Jul 2014
Posts: 42

The "writer" type programs

I recalled the writer type programs today at work. You know the ones where you write on the screen, then the program can play it back.

I remember writing one of those back in the day, but didn't really remember much about it other than it used kernal routines, and then you just stored all the keypresses in a buffer, and just played it back.

I was looking at kernal routines etc. for hours, and finally came up with a shitty program 🤣 (you can't save, lol).

I didn't remember that the cursor caused so many headaches back then, but I kind of got it to work, but it is ugly in writing mode.

Haha, I'm wondering how much I coded it the wrong way, or how it can be optimized/done smarter, especially the cursor stuff.

Have a look, if you're interested in this spaghetti code 🤣🤣🤣: https://pastebin.com/xz7SmVSQ

Cheers!
Peter / Starfox

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2021-09-16 14:43

Frantic

Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1648

Even though it is not 100% on topic, in this context I'd also like to mention:
Poison's Notemaker Stuff

2021-09-16 16:23

Starfox

Registered: Jul 2014
Posts: 42

Wow, a lot of suggestions :) This tools sure was popular to have your own version of.

2021-09-16 16:44

Zyron

Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2381

I think Super Writer was the first one I saw.

Futurewriter & Futurewriter II + were also quite commonly used.

2021-09-16 17:35

Ziaxx

Registered: Oct 2020
Posts: 18