Hi,
@Nigel,
Yes the Amstrad had a Basic interpreter, so one could code in that. As it happened it had a superb feature which was that one could add on a dongle which held up to 6 ROMs each of 16k, and could invoke them with |Protext for example. The advantage of that was that the whole of the RAM was available for data. But of course to write in the ROM, one had two constraints. 1. Your code had to fit into 16k and not a byte more, and 2 it had to be in machine language.
As my nic suggests, I live next door, but lived in London for the first 48 years of my life. Glad you agree about the hands on advantage.
@Inger Taking your point about RLM (I guess the ptb would prefer stuff to be more or less on-topic) I don't see it as a problem from the point of view of having hands on control. As I understand it, you create a structure (wire frame, grid, call it what you like) and that is nearly all going to live in the external CSS. So you use the CSS to create the form, complete with breakpoints, etc and then craft the HTML round the stub it gives you (it's got to have something, of course) to create the content.
@Gunsmoke. Yes, spall chuckers are fine, as long as you're typo leads to something that ain't in the dictionary. But, if you look at the 2nd and 3rd words, both will pass a spill shaker. In fact, this last paragraph has 5 mistakes in it none of which would be picked up mechanically. Sniff... I want an intelligent spell checker. There's nearly one in French, by the way called Antidote.
I've uploaded the pdf of the rows and columns section of the quick guide for your perusal.
http://gunsmoke.me/gfh/download.php?file=578rowsncols.pdf
Do let me know.... bla bla.
All the Best
Ian
but to coin a phrase.
